I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.
People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you’ve seen and the people you’ve met.
People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either
There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run - and the research confirms this again and again - it's going to run from the experienced to the inexperienced. The net outcome of sex education, styled as Rogerian encountering, is more sexual experience.
When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.