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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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
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I was raised on NBC television.
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The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.
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Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.
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Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.
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I am just focusing on one match at a time.
