Kevin Kwan Quotes
There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.
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Rich kids got a lot to say. Rich kids never have to pay. Everything’s funny when you’re young with money. And mommy and daddy will pay the way.
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There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it.
