Joan Chen Quotes
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
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I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
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Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
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'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
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They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the minds Of young children sublime words Too soon forgotten. God in his time Or out of time will correct this.
