Ken Jeong Quotes
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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'Cause I can't help it if you look like an angel;Can't help it if I wanna kiss you in the rain, so...Come feel this magic I've been feelin' since I met you,Can't help it if there's no one else.
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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good -Are gone.
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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Si pudiera dejar todo como está, sin mover ni una estrella, ni una nube. ¡Ah, si pudiera!
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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
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In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.
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Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.
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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.
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I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
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Artists aren't role models. If you want to do that, go into politics.
