Constance Wu Quotes

Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

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• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Sex
  • Years

• Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Over
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Feel

• Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • Call
  • Phone

• The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Ever

• I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Hair
  • Street

• There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • World
  • Music
  • History

• If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Rock

• I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Talk
  • Careful
  • Qualified

• I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Life
  • Real
  • Book

• I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Single
  • Dating
  • Rather

• I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Children
  • Girl

• I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Clever

• Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • God
  • Faith

• What to leave out is the first thing the artist has to decide; a painter who 'held the mirror up to nature' would spend his life on the leaves of one landscape. The work of art’s fluctuating and idiosyncratic threshold of attention-the great things disregarded, the small things seized and dwelt on-is as much of a signature as anything in it.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I think of the French polymath Boris Vian (1920-1959) who burned the candles of his creative genius at every end he could light. And I think of the way Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) hammered with

  

  Aberjhani
  • Light
  • Author

• Android is the kind of runaway smash hit that techies spend their careers dreaming about.

  

  Daniel Lyons

• Cardiovascular disease is a major complication of diabetes.

  

  Antonio Gotto
  • Diabetes
  • Complication
  • Cardiovascular

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

  

  Constance Wu