Jenny Zhang Quotes

I wish I had acted better. I wish I had been the kind of sister who was patient enough to show my brother the proper spelling for 'Power Rangers.'

Jenny Zhang

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• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Movie

• I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Age
  • Like
  • Feel

• I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Done
  • Best

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Family
  • Why

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Actor
  • Influences
  • Were

• It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gift

• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Powerful
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Done
  • Star
  • Couple

• There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • You
  • Risk

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Book
  • Amazing

• Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Problems
  • Japan
  • Cowardice

• Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Guy

• I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Tough

• My dad is an electrical engineer. So he was always very focused on, you know, teaching his daughters about, you know, science, math, technology. None of us actually became engineers for our careers, but I always had that exposure when I was young, and I just loved playing computer games.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Science
  • Dad
  • Technology

• Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

  

  Chantal Kreviazuk
  • Music
  • Money
  • Small

• I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Marriage
  • Will
  • Vote

• I wish I had acted better. I wish I had been the kind of sister who was patient enough to show my brother the proper spelling for 'Power Rangers.'

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Power
  • Wish
  • Brother