Perry Chen Quotes

Kickstarter has been such a heads-down thing.

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• I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Literature

• Going forward, we will focus on building the very best Windows phones on a quicker timeline. We will also focus on the channels and markets that offer the best returns. This is a similar approach to the one we have taken with Surface, which has been very successful.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Taken

• New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Home
  • Born
  • New

• We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Women
  • Self
  • Stand

• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Songs

• The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Friends
  • Yourself

• You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Risk

• Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• I am and will always be a Laker for life.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Laker

• I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Help
  • Past

• I am happy because I am no longer an author.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Author

• I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• I don't think I'm capable of writing without caffeine. And most of the time, that caffeine comes from iced tea.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Tea

• The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Life
  • Death
  • Child

• The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Time
  • Film
  • Period

• More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Rich

• China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • China
  • Cultural
  • Pillar

• I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Family
  • Job

• When I do all-hands calls - and I do a lot of all-hands calls - and I look out across 50 people, or 5,000 people, I see United States sailors. I do not see male sailors, or female sailors, and I do not think anybody else does, either.

  

  Ray Mabus
  • People
  • Female
  • States

• Everything I know about makeup, I've learned from my sister.

  

  Emily Deschanel
  • Sister
  • Makeup

• The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • World
  • Music
  • Trying

• Kickstarter has been such a heads-down thing.

  

  Perry Chen