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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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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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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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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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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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
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We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.
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In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.
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An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.
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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.
