Joan Chen Quotes
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
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I have not won far more awards than I have won.
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After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears.
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Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
