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Jackie Chan Quotes

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: chinese
Birth: April 7, 1954

Topics

World Feel Barriers Without Things

I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.

I Am Building Office Standards Than

I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.

Father Mother Born She Bank Days

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

Myself Writing Ending Voice Story

Up until the final decade of the nineteenth century, the United States and the United Kingdom did not recognize copyright in each other's creative works.

Creative Decade Kingdom Up Final

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

Jeff Greenfield

Eyes Free Voice Trapped Spirit Rude

I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you.

Imagination You Go Up Go Away Stuff

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

Siobhan Finneran

Me Plan Career New Birth Big

I fight the same way as my dad! I've picked that up from him. We both get angry really fast and very intensely, and then get over it very quickly. You need to be good at apologising if you fight like that.

Good Fight Angry You Fast Way

Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.

Nature History Now Worst Invention

If you get a sense that your writing isn't quite working, change it. Or cut it out. Don't just tell yourself it'll do, because it won't.

Change Yourself Writing You Out Cut

It's very easy to make a viral video, but longevity and consistency, that's hard.

Consistency Easy Longevity Hard Make

All the books I've read, I've read at the right moment.

Moment Right Books Read Right Moment

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