Kelvin Yu Quotes
My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
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I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
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With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
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I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.
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I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
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Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
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All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.
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I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.
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After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.
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How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?
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I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.
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I never know what kind of people I'll meet just by stopping to take a photo.
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My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
