Kelsey Chow Quotes
Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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I write novels and other things.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.
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My ignorance is widespread.
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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
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Except for a handful of banks that just keep a handful of their loans in portfolio, on their balance sheet, every other loan that's originated in the United States - whether from a bank, mortgage company, mortgage broker - is sold into the secondary market.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!' That thought embarrasses me so much that I look like s**t in half my photos, and I don't give a f***. What matters to me is that the people in the room leave and say, 'She was cool. She had a good time. She was honest.'
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As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.
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I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There's a really cool diner down the street from my house. They make really good pancakes; I'd be happy doing that.'
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Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.
