Kevin Kwan Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
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It's important to keep yourself grounded, and my friends and family make sure of that.
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Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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I come from an old establishment family from Singapore.
