"Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing."

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Joan Chen

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“THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.”

Source : Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.11, University of Chicago Press
“I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.”
“There's been a lot of comparisons to "The Prisoner," and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really honest, I count that as a compliment, in the sense that what I felt "The Prisoner" was for the '60's, in how the individual triumphs over the state and authority, our show is really about how complacent we have become in our lives, which are scrutinized.”
“I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.”
“I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.”
“Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'”
“Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.”
“Good taste is the enemy of creativity.”

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