Chin-Ning Chu Quotes
When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.
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If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
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I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.
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'The Storms We Share' has been a project that I've been working on for so long.
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I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.
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When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.
