Jenny Zhang Quotes

Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?

Jenny Zhang

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• I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Dream
  • Flying
  • Mars

• There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Point

• As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Dream

• 'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Country
  • Book

• Competing in London would be a dream come true.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • True
  • Dream
  • London

• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Perfect
  • Woman
  • Discipline

• The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Together
  • Age
  • Dream

• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Childhood

• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Age
  • Blessed
  • Acceptance

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Long
  • Dream

• I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dream
  • Speak
  • Year

• The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Refuge

• I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Perfect
  • Day
  • Beginning

• Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • World
  • Great
  • Remember

• Being someone who plays gigs and finding many, many memorable ones in different ways, I guess I'd have to say I don't really have a single favourite one that I could pick out.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Favourite
  • Gigs
  • Pick Out

• It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.

  

  John H. Reagan
  • Great
  • Political
  • Giving

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Career
  • House

• I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Work
  • Wall

• Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

  

  Plato
  • Good
  • Love
  • Joy

• Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Dream
  • Perfect
  • Acceptance