Kelly Marie Tran Quotes

I want to work with great directors and tell great stories - storytelling is the one great love of my life, and it means so much, and we have the ability to change the world by telling stories, and I want to keep doing that.

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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
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  • Country
  • American

• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • Artist

• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Media

• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • World
  • Done
  • Want

• I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.

  

  Tao Lin
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• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• Messengers of Peace such as Midori - and our Goodwill Ambassadors, who work directly with the UN agencies - are dedicated and well-informed and credible advocates on behalf of the United Nations. They help us educate audiences worldwide and rally support on key issues of the United Nations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

  

  Vince Gill
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• There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

  

  Jackie Cooper
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• To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

  

  Hans Jonas
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• I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

  

  Imogen Heap
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• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
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  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

  

  Naveen Jain
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  • True
  • Success

• Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
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  • May

• One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'

  

  Edmonia Lewis
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• And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

  

  John Guare
  • Life
  • City
  • Present

• The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.

  

  Ava DuVernay
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  • Up
  • Black

• Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

  

  James Monroe
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• I want to work with great directors and tell great stories - storytelling is the one great love of my life, and it means so much, and we have the ability to change the world by telling stories, and I want to keep doing that.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
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