Jenova Chen Quotes
When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
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I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.
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When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.
