Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you.

Mary H.K. Choi

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LearningRideBikeYouSeePark

I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.

Joanna Lumley

BusinessMyselfYourselfMeHair

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

BirdParadiseHandOnlyGraspDoes

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

Matthew Macfadyen

YourselfComfort ZoneThinkDoing

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Ang Lee

LifeSonMoneyMy LifeTryHospital

What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

Michael Haneke

I AmMeStupidTreatSeriouslyMore

Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'

Michael Keaton

JobI AmWaitSpeakFeelSometimes

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

Minnie Driver

MusicMyselfStartGuitarEnough

I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.

Chevy Chase

FunnyLoveMeFindI CanKind

Look at all the magazines: There's always 10 ways to be better at something.

Brooke Elliott

BetterLookAlwaysSomethingWays

I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle.

Allison Tolman

TimeSchoolNew YorkCollegeMeNew

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

Peter Marino

MoneyParentsSpeechClassSound

I do have a touch of OCD, and I used to obsess about research. But I'm better than I was. Gone are the days when I would drive to a set of traffic lights to find out if you could turn left. I finally realised it didn't matter. A book will not stand or fall on whether or not there's a branch of Starbucks in Brixton.

Mark Billingham

ResearchDriveBookStandBetter

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