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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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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Even though my brother and I loved scrumping - we loved the act of climbing trees and grabbing fruit - there was always fear we would be caught. We feared we'd be imprisoned, sent to Australia.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
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I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.
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When you're a little kid, and you're, like, thinking about the Olympics, and you just have this big expectation, it just lived up exactly to that.
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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.
