Aaron Yoo quotes

“I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.”
-- Aaron Yoo

Source : Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. March 26, 2008.

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“I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.”
-- Aaron Yoo

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“Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.”
-- Aaron Yoo

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“I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!”
-- Aaron Yoo

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“My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.”
-- Aaron Yoo

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“When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.”
-- Aaron Yoo

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“The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.”

“Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.”

“The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.”

“All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.”

“It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”