Me Quotes
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I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.
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So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
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They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'
