Jenny Zhang Quotes
Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued by the love of a good man.
Quotes to Explore
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
-
I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
-
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
-
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
-
I wasn't a ladies' man.
-
I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
-
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
-
I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
-
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
-
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
-
Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
-
So the storm passed and every one was happy.
-
When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
-
We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
-
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
-
It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
-
I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
-
What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
-
I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.
-
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
-
Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
-
Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued by the love of a good man.
