#de

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts. ↗

— Sadaharu Oh

#efforts #make #ready #rewarded #simply

All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#canada #career #directors #done #entire

I definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#definitely #go #i #look

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#auditioning #blonde #certain #certain actors #difficult

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#because #big #close #discouragement #education

Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#commenting #department #despite #each #hired

I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#formats #haven #i #i think #made

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.' ↗

— Ann Curry

#end #i #in the end #life #made

Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#being #deal #decided #did #end

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#expertise #i #i think #information #inside