Jenova Chen Quotes
When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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There are still Negro elites. Many of them are obviously much richer, and perhaps a little more integrated into what remains a white power structure. But those old rituals from the social clubs, to the broadly segregated white and black schools, to an obsessive interest in ancestry, all of that does still exist. Look: we are a class-bound society.
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Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
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I think people are just intrigued with the supernatural. I mean, I know that I am. It's something that I find very interesting.
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I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.
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When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.
