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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

Action Action Films American American Family
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
Always Fantasies Goals Put
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

Business Competence Emmy Level
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
Me Right Wanted Work
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First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

Actress Convince First Maybe
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There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

God Lights Made Mistake
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I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Am Appointments Change Hours
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

Admit Different Fans Feelings
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Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
Been Big Feel Has-Been
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Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Always Been Biggest Child
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I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Everybody Exactly Fireplace Like
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I don't digest things with my mind.

Digest Mind Things
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Contempt Envy Grant High
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Have Held Many Things
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Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.”
Lead Best Come Books
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Own Age Come Known
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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solace and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

My Heart Which Full
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Clouds Display Fear Wish
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Alchemy Although Considered Contempt
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Joy Love Part Sharing
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

About Account Basis Distress
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Aim Alchemy Consider Gold
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Alchemy Astronomy Ethics Four
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

Begun Daddy Day Done
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died

Aim Effort History Life
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Music Easiest Express Talent
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Yes. A few times actually but my mindset has always been

Mindset Die Bend Fold
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Alchemy Chemist He Medicine
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Alchemy Founder Process Smith
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Involves Irrational Mysteries Perceived
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I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

Being Both Doing Glad
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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Example Father Had Just
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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

Hang Hear Her Maria
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I don't try to control my days.

Control Days Try
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I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

More Afraid Own Heart
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Life Myself Need Never
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.

My Own Own Reality Reject
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My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.

Affection Am Everyone Half
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Detail Hard Submit Exceed
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My customers are successful workingwomen.

Customers Women My Successful
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

Ask Filming Get Hours
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

Blush Contain First Matter
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I only want my work to make people happy.

Happy Make Only People
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.

All Women Childhood Sisters Surrounded
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Body Continue Dream Filming
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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Pine Item After World
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

Diary Downstairs Exercise Goes
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Day English Every Every Day
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When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

Audience Direct Film Hear
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

Appeared Big Big Screen Bring
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