Jenny Zhang Quotes

It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance.

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• A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • Want
  • Losing

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • School
  • Small
  • Law

• I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • God
  • Media

• I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Forever

• Babyface is definitely a big inspiration.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Inspiration
  • Baby face

• Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Relationship
  • Alone
  • Honor

• For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Dream

• I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Great
  • Size
  • Teeth

• I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • True
  • Best
  • Better

• With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • History
  • Person
  • Weight

• Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Ignorance

• My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Wife
  • Couple
  • Year

• We do not want to leave Germany forever. Something I would not be able to manage at all, since my roots sit too deep in German soil.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Forever
  • Deep
  • German

• On the other hand one must not entertain any fantastic illusions on the productive power of the credit system, so far as it supplies or sets in motion money-capital.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Power
  • Hand

• We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Books
  • Dancing
  • Mountains

• What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that is mysterious and menacing, and doesn't quite look like what we've seen before.

  

  Scott Derrickson
  • Character
  • Looks
  • Mysterious

• I love touring. If I could tour every day of my life, I would. It's my favorite thing to do.

  

  Ahmed Gallab
  • Thing
  • Favorite
  • Touring

• I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always had to have a rotten apple on his desk. The smell of the apple inspired him somehow.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Work
  • Great
  • Inspired

• It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance.

  

  Jenny Zhang