Jackie Chan Quotes

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

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• You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • You
  • Fear
  • Hate

• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
  • Control

• I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Important
  • You
  • Questions

• The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

  

  Washed Out
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Perspective

• If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Journey
  • Take

• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Kindness

• Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Transformation

• The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • You
  • Drama

• Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Control
  • Support

• For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Poetry
  • Quit

• Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Friends
  • Earth
  • Change

• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Control
  • Red
  • Difficult

• Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • You
  • Something
  • Womanhood

• The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Think
  • Change
  • Thoughts

• A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Want
  • You
  • See

• Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • You
  • Feeling

• A book is a gift you can open again and again.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Book
  • You
  • Gift

• I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • You
  • Know
  • Sensitive

• For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Mirror
  • Back
  • Seeing

• My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Family
  • Together
  • Dad

• The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Reality

• I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.

  

  Clive Cussler
  • Action

• Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • You
  • Change
  • Control