Joan Chen Quotes
I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.'
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
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We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in front of the camera who I've ever photographed. Yes Taylor Swift has it all. My goodness that girl has it all, what can I say she's extraordinary.
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Down the country, people in rural areas are struggling to get a speed of even 1 MB, not much better than the old dial-up system we used to have when the system was in relative infancy.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
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I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.
