Ming-Na Wen Quotes

Mulan is so important in Chinese folklore - a fearless girl who cared about her family and country so much that she was willing to join the fight and sacrifice herself.

Ming-Na Wen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: November 20, 1963

Topics

FamilyGirlSacrificeFightFearless

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

Jimmy Wales

KnowledgePeopleWorldAlwaysBig

A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

Johannes Stark

DirectionSameMayMoveRaysMade

I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.

Joel Kinnaman

MistakesPeopleBetter PersonBetter

When we talk about 'Sweetback,' yes, it stars the whole black movement, but it's also the first time an independent film made that kind of money and was that successful and taken seriously.

Melvin Van Peebles

StarsTimeMoneyBlackSeriously

When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy.

Robert Lepage

RiverWorkingJapaneseReadElements

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

Steve Lacy

AloneTryingNobodyKnowFirst

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Stephen Jay Gould

ScienceTimeTomorrowStartPhysics

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

Roger Ebert

MeKindWebFineGladSort

I was eight when I found out I was adopted. My step-brother told me. He'd overheard my mum and my stepdad at the time talking about it, and he threw it in my face. But I didn't really care. It didn't seem relevant, because I never once in my life felt unloved or like I was a burden.

RJ Mitte

LifeTimeMeFaceCareMy Life

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

Jonathan Galassi

PoetryThinkFeelingsDeepestAlways

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Christopher Plummer

BetterYouWriteTurnEither

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Alice Walker

LifeChangeTimeI CanRealSame

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