Jackie Chan Quotes
It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I don't study; I create.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!
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I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
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I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
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What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
