Priscilla Chan Quotes
We - the current generation - have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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A president cannot grow a long-term lack of trust in someone with whom they had full confidence the day before.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
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We - the current generation - have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.
