Joan Chen Quotes
There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.
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Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.
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As people's lifestyles have improved, they've become more and more sensitive toward animals. It's becoming a universal value, like Western classical music.
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As an actor, it is okay to fall and get up. Then you can give your best. Sometimes audiences don't receive it well, but you have to take it in the right sense. It is part and parcel of being in the industry.
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My outlook on life is so much clearer.
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There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!
