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Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the jungles in the Philippines escaping Japanese military chasing after them - I grew up with what they deem now as trauma, generational trauma. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Growing Up
#Mother
#Trauma
#War
#World
Our old stories happen to be your new stories. The stories that you're seeing as immigrant stories are your grandparents' stories, are your great-grandparents' stories. You just happen to be separated from them a little bit. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Happen
#Immigrant
#New
#Old
#Seeing
JACL has always been at the very forefront of making sure citizens' civil rights remain intact. They fight wholeheartedly against discrimination, prejudice and racial bias and they always provide a calm voice during turbulent times. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Bias
#Calm
#Discrimination
#Fight
#Voice
I think that is what all ethnic actors aspire to - to just play a woman who falls in love, or works as a clerk, or whatever - and then, if you want to, to have that luxury to bring in the cultural heritage. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Heritage
#Love
#Play
#Whatever
#Woman
Of course, if you're going to enter the 'Star Trek' Universe, you want to work with Spock, you want to work with Kirk, you want to work with McCoy, and Scotty, and Sulu, and Uhura. The next one for me would have been Picard. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Me
#Next
#Universe
#Want
#Work
When I went in for 'The Good Doctor,' I had just been released from 'Berlin Station.' And when I got the initial role for the 'Good Doctor' pilot, her name was Allegra Abe. That was the script. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Doctor
#Good
#Just
#Name
#Pilot
The scope of the history of women is so underplayed and not told as often as it should be. - Tamlyn Tomita
#History
#Often
#Scope
#Should
#Women
It's always the great thing about being involved in such a legacy series such as 'Star Trek' is you'll always want to know more about the characters that you love. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Always
#Great
#Know
#Legacy
#Love
I'm much too egotistical to move outside the acting realm. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Acting
#Egotistical
#Move
#Outside
#Too
Not everybody's journey is easy, and it wouldn't be worthwhile if you can't see what you gained without realizing what kind of battles you've been through, what kind of scars you have. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Battles
#Easy
#Journey
#Scars
#See
I absolutely adore Vancouver, it's really been my second home. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Adore
#Home
#Second Home
#Vancouver
There is an attitude that Okinawans have about Japan itself. There is a resentment. - Tamlyn Tomita
#About
#Attitude
#Itself
#Resentment
I did not want to become an actor. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Actor
#Become
#Did
#Want
We are all woven of different colored threads and strengths and colors. We are all a part of something bigger, a very special part of something that continues to evolve. A more perfect union. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Colors
#Evolve
#More
#Perfect
#Special
If I am more fortunate than others I need to build a longer table not a taller fence. - Tamlyn Tomita
#Build
#Fence
#I Am
#Need
#Table
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