Jackie Chan Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.
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When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is a fearlessness to understanding your purpose.
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I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
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I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
