Kiana Tom Quotes
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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With a movie, the die is cast. It is what it is. With TV, it's a living organism in a way. Fans can have input, with the whole social media thing, and they can track what fans are liking and not liking.
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For me, being in front of the camera and training go hand in hand.
