Jenny Zhang Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.
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Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.
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Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!
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It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.
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I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.
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Visibility doesn't always equal freedom.
