Chen Long Quotes
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable
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No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.
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I am just focusing on one match at a time.
