Iris Chang Quotes

Often when times are good and when the US is on good diplomatic terms with China, the Chinese are viewed as a bridge between the two countries.

Iris Chang

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• My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.

  

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• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

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• I am not honest.

  

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• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

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• I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.

  

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• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  

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• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

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• I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

  

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• I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

  

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• The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.

  

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• I never ever paid attention to any election.

  

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• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

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• To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

  

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• I love books.

  

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• When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

  

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• Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

  

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• (Without the CPF), Singaporeans would buy enormous quantities of clothes, shoes, furniture, television sets, radio, tape recorders, hi-fis, washing machines, motor cars. They would have no substantial or permanent asset to show for it.

  

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• When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.

  

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• It makes no sense that this country has 11 million workers feeding, building this country, making America what it is, and they don't share the same rights of those who are consuming the fruit of their labor.

  

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• Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

  

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  • Good
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• You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

  

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• Often when times are good and when the US is on good diplomatic terms with China, the Chinese are viewed as a bridge between the two countries.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Good
  • Chinese
  • United States