Joan Chen Quotes
As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
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There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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Having children with someone is the real bond.
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I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
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But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
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With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.
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I think that everything you do, everything that you start and everything that you end, it does that for a reason, and it's to move forward on to the next thing or the next road or the next path or whatever.
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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
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Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.
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You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.
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As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
