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Gemma Chan Quotes

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: english
Birth: November 29, 1982

Topics

Parents People Expectation Study

Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.

Beautiful People Me Compliment Being

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

Robert H. Grubbs

Science Teacher School Me High

We wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of success for us.

Success Song Measure Creating Living

The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.

Important Investment Oil Castles

We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to get it through an employer.

Health People Insurance Need Own

One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you.

Great Time Grateful Death You Want

How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.

Time Me Think You Know Hand

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Amazing Society Weird Celebrity More

Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues.

Positive Strength I Am People Small

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Archibald MacLeish

Moment Silence Opinions You Own Who

In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.

Anthony Michael Hall

Character Man Looking Face Doors

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

Annie Leibovitz

Space Think Design Problem Wall

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