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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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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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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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 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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I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
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Married life suits me.
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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.
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In isolated or country places no man's life is safe.
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Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some other unworthy thing. It was not enough for me to conquer the world--I wanted to conquer heaven too.
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On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
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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.
