Jackie Chan Quotes
I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
Jackie Chan
Quotes to Explore
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
Nathan Fillion
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
Fede Alvarez
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
J. G. Ballard
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
Halston Sage
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
Barton Gellman
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Patrice Leconte
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
Yvonne Strahovski
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
Caleb Cushing
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. Hinton
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
Ovid
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
Kate Reardon
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
Oriana Fallaci
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
Daniel Ek
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Edith Sitwell
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I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the ether. So just hearing anything back from anyone was kind of startling.
Xavier Samuel
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Growing up, I always wanted a bedroom of my own.
Mickey Drexler
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I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.
Morrissey
The Smiths
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If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.
Terry Brooks
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
Jackie Chan