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.
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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.
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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.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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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.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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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.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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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.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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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.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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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.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Don't worry. For a man who has been dead for fifteen years I am in remarkable health. Love. Mr. Barrymore.
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O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.
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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.
