Hong Chau Quotes

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.

Hong Chau

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'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.

John Burnside

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Beijing is a place where you can go and try on all kinds of hats. It's also a place where you can hide really easily.

Jennifer Salt

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There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

Jeff Vandermeer

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One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

Tom Colicchio

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In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.

Roone Arledge

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I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

Ron Livingston

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I used to skate around the rink with my mom, and we used to race each other until I started getting way better. Then she hung up her skates and resorted to playing my music at the rink.

Mirai Nagasu

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I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

Christian Slater

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Ted Danson is amazing. He's incredible.

Alison Brie

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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

Scott Adams

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When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.

Tina Maze

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With any project, but especially in television, I always try to look at where the character is starting from and where he's going to end up, and try to find the biggest arc that makes it the most exciting to play.

Noah Wyle

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