Jenny Zhang Quotes
I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.
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When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
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I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.
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It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
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I'm extremely lucky in that my wife is the chief scheduler.
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I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.
