Jackie Chan Quotes
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they're a product of you.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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I spent some time, six months or so, ruminating about the characters before I sat down to write 'Faith'.
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When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
