Kenneth Choi Quotes
The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.
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But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
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As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.
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My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
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My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.
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Actually, I'd really love to do something in Bali, up in the mountains. A little restaurant with that scenery would be beautiful.
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'At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.'
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Time will heal everything.
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That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
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The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.
