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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s.
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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I am just focusing on one match at a time.
