Thuy Quotes

#1. Every gift we offered was a genuine gift, because it represented a sacrifice and it answered a need, a desire or a dream

Kim Thuy

#2. Last night I dreamed of Peace.

Dang Thuy Tram

#3. He had stopped time by continuing to enjoy himself, to live until the end with the lightness of a young man.

Kim Thuy

#4. I remember some students in my high school who complained about the compulsory history classes. Young as we were, we didn't realize that the course was a privilege only countries at peace can afford. Elsewhere,

Kim Thuy

#5. He is someone who lives in the moment, with no affection for the past. He savours every instant of the present as if it were still the best and only time, with no comparisons, no measurement.

Kim Thuy

#6. I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.

Thuy Trang

#7. We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

Thuy Trang

#8. From country to country as if it were an anchor, or the memory of dropping the first anchor.

Kim Thuy

#9. To see a doll of yourself is very weird and very neat at the same time.

Thuy Trang

#10. A Vietnamese saying has it that "Only those with long hair are afraid, for no one can pull the hair of those who have none." And so I try as much as possible to acquire only those things that don't extend beyond the limits of my body.

Kim Thuy

#11. When I grow up I am going to be the gangster we are all looking for.

Le Thi Diem Thuy

#12. I don't know how time moves or which of our sorrows or our desires it is able to wash away.

Le Thi Diem Thuy

#13. Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.

Thuy Trang

#14. If I had known what it meant to love, I wouldn't have had children, because once we love, we love forever, like Uncle Two's wife, Step-aunt Two, who can't stop loving her gambler son, the son who is burning up the family fortune like a pyromaniac.

Kim Thuy

#15. Elsewhere, people are too preoccupied by their day-to-day survival to take the time to write their collective history.

Kim Thuy

#16. A Saigon Proverb: Doe la chine tran, neu buon la thua. Life is a struggle in which sorrow leads to defeat.

Kim Thuy

#17. And also, where an outstretched hand is no longer a gesture but a moment of love, lasting until sleep, until waking, until everyday life.

Kim Thuy

#18. Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

Thuy Trang

#19. Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

Thuy Trang

#20. Tell all the fans that I completely adore them, and tell them I say, 'Thank you so much', for their love and support; and that I miss them terribly, and hopefully I get to see them or they get to see me up on the screen soon. And send my love, definitely.

Thuy Trang

#21. Intensely craving a salad of green papaya with bird chilies that tore your mouth apart, that burned your lips, set fire to your heart.

Kim Thuy

#22. Love comes from the head and not the heart. Of the entire body, only the head matters.

Kim Thuy

#23. I moved forward in the trace of their footsteps as in a waking dream where the scent of a newly blown poppy is no longer a perfume but a blossoming: where the deep red of a maple leaf in autumn is no longer a colour but a grace; where a country is no longer a place but a lullaby.

Kim Thuy

#24. Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.

Dang Thuy Tram

#25. I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.

Thuy Trang

#26. I learned that music comes from the voice, the rhythm and the heart of each person, and that the musicality of those unrecorded melodies could lift the curtain of fog, pass through windows and screens to waken us as gently as a morning lullaby.

Kim Thuy

#27. Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.

Thuy Trang

#28. If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.

Kim Thuy

#29. As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in flames and I didn't experience war until Vietnam had laid down its weapons. I believe that war and peace are actually friends, who mock us.

Kim Thuy

#30. History flung the accents on our names into the water when it took us across the Gulf of Siam thirty years ago.

Kim Thuy