Nora Lum (Awkwafina) Quotes
My mom passed away when I was 4 years old, and she came from a very conservative Korean background. I feel like my life would've been incredibly different had she still been alive.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
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I'm just not very funny.
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For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us.
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The challenge for a director - and I think a lot of directors feel the same way - is that today we have to put on a producer's hat, too. Meaning, you have to sometimes think of it being 'business show,' not just 'show business.'
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I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.
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My mom passed away when I was 4 years old, and she came from a very conservative Korean background. I feel like my life would've been incredibly different had she still been alive.
