Amy Chan Quotes
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
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I regret all of my books.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death.
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I hear people saying we don't need this war, I say there's some things worth fighting for. What about our freedom and this piece of ground, we didn't get to keep them by backing down.
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The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.
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A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.
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It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.
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Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.
