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.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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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.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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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.
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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.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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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.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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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.
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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.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'
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The ball is in the court of the two principals. There is basically four options they can take a look at.
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By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?
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My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid.
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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.
