Kevin Kwan Quotes
I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.
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If you believe in chakras - head and heart - I think singing opens them up, like a wide open door.
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O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?
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The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
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There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.
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I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.
