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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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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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 hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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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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There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
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One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
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Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
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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.
