Gemma Chan Quotes
I do feel a responsibility to try and raise awareness and to help tell the stories of those who may not otherwise have a voice.
Quotes to Explore
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.
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A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
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I write-down to speak-up.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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Even with the darkest and most distressing subjects in movies there's always going to be humour not far away, just under the surface. And it does help otherwise we'd just get ourselves into a massive trough of depression if there wasn't humour just around the corner.
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I do feel a responsibility to try and raise awareness and to help tell the stories of those who may not otherwise have a voice.
