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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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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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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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
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The more frequently you focus on your appreciation and gratitude for each breath, the greater will be your sense of daily gratitude... Now say, 'I am joyfully grateful for each and every breath.' If you have any doubt of your gratitude, just imagine the alternative for a moment - not being able to breathe!
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A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.
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Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.
