Jenny Zhang Quotes
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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I don't believe in God.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
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Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
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A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
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I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.
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Being from Florida and playing so many tournaments on that beach in Fort Lauderdale, I just want to be on that beach playing.
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The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
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I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day.
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Justice delayed is justice denied.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.
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I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.
