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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
Jackie Chan
Me
You
People
First
Whatever
Say
Tell
More
Restrictions
Safe
Because
Making
Doing
American
So Many People
American Film
Many
They Say
Film
Watch
Set
I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
Jackie Chan
Family
Important
Think
Everybody
Very
Movie
Now
Right
I give the children education.
Jackie Chan
Education
Give
Children
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
Jackie Chan
Sometimes
Embarrassed
Very
The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
Jackie Chan
You
Kids
Never
Listen
Youngest
In the real world, children love me.
Jackie Chan
Love
Me
Love Me
World
Real
Children
The Real World
Real World
I've got a very interesting background.
Jackie Chan
Background
Got
Very
Interesting
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
Jackie Chan
Good
Freedom
Confused
Sure
Really
Now
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
Jackie Chan
Films
Make
Audiences
American
American Audiences
Asian
When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
Jackie Chan
Myself
Sometimes
Meetings
Later
Hours
Until
Up
Get
Ask
Then
Why
Two
Filming
I hate interviews - but you have to do them.
Jackie Chan
You
Hate
Interviews
Them
I like to give back.
Jackie Chan
Back
Give
Like
My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
Jackie Chan
Wake Up
Shoes
Running
Schedule
Exercise
Diary
Off
Wake
Up
Jackie
Jackie Chan
Goes
Then
Shower
Downstairs
When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
Jackie Chan
Education
Money
Care
Young
About
Box
Box Office
Office
Just
I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
Jackie Chan
Life
My Life
Action
Longer
Get
Short
Want
Star
Career
I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
Jackie Chan
Fireman
Learn
Spy
Effects
Want
Special
Special Effects
Play
When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
Jackie Chan
Money
Everything
Got
Began
Very
Child
Wanted
Poor
Things
Buying
If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
Jackie Chan
Good
World
Will
Think
Everyone
Some
Does
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
Jackie Chan
Work
People
Training
Become
Sleeping
Mostly
Because
Still
Were
Very
Did
Jackie
Jackie Chan
Hard
Why
I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.
Jackie Chan
Good
Fans
Way
Good Movies
Make
Thank
Just
Movies
Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.
Jenny Zhang
Memory
Comforting
First
Half
Become
Lost
Else
Pleasant
Back
Spent
City
Born
Shanghai
Most
Half Years
Empty
Without
Go
Years
Blood
Often
Where
Place
Formed
Meaning
Four
Necessarily
Need
Core
As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life.
Jenny Zhang
Life
You
Own
Older
Else
Someone
Only
Protagonist
Get
Story
Realize
Your
In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon.
Jenny Zhang
Writing
Mind
Canon
English
Core
I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.
Jenny Zhang
Mother
Down
Shanghai
Had
Up
Person
American
Where
Grew
Literally
Chinese
Who
Lived
Street
'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.
Jenny Zhang
Poet
Late
Danish
Poem
Alphabet
Also
Text
Wonder
Activist
I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.
Jenny Zhang
Had
Access
Behave
Closet
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