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Ming-Na Wen Quotes

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: chinese
Birth: November 20, 1963

Topics

Myself Trying I Can Different Just

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

John Francis Daley

Great Child Down Actor Write Always

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Nature Tree Travel Fast Never Saw

Barcelona and Real Madrid wingers, these are the big players at the big clubs and you have to watch them. They are at a top level. I'm not going to say they inspire me, but I take things from them.

Me Inspire You Say Top Real

When I dabble in watching the news and reading about current events, I tend to get a future negative view, and that's something I've dealt with through music. It's quite possible I'm slightly paranoid. But I'd say making music is an expression of feelings of helplessness and lack of control that I think a lot of people can relate to.

Future Music People Control Reading

I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.

Risks People Me Drive Sorry Road

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

Michelle Malkin

Daily Character Motto House White

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

Literature Violence You Sex Know

With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about.

People Crazy Comedy Talking You Try

Being raised in Idaho, you think everyone is poor. Then you see the wider world.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

World Think You Poor Everyone See

My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.

Music Myself Writing Thinking Way

Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.

Life Work Experience Training People

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

Smoking Comedy Back Go Way Real

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