Chiaki Kuriyama Quotes

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

Chiaki Kuriyama

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LearningGreatThinkLearnAmerica

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

Joan Crawford

LifeFaceYouHollywoodYourSum

I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!

Jesse McCartney

TimeMeMomLateSeriousManager

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.

Jerry B. Jenkins

ActionComfort ZonePlaceComfort

I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn't need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.

Max Thieriot

MyselfSchoolMeChaosHigh School

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

John Henrik Clarke

HistoryTimeDayPeoplePolitical

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Robert Louis Stevenson

SuicideYouNothingLeftEvenOnce

My songs are just little letters to me.

Ani DiFranco

MeLettersLittleJustSongs

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'

Jeff Greenfield

LifeBlackPoliticalDebateVeil

My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.

Jeff Lindsay

TeacherBestSchoolWritingLesson

Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

John Slattery

CharacterEyesTimeHateHimSame

I've got three kids, and my three kids make me feel like I'm getting older every day.

Rob Liefeld

DayGetting OlderMeFeelEvery Day

I have always been pretty flexible. I could always jump and do all kinds of dangerous movements. In opera, I like to do it because it's fun, as long as it fits the role.

Juan Diego Florez

FunLongDangerousJumpFlexible

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