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For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.
Joan Chen
Success
Girl
Past
Few
Young
Think
Gave
Visible
Possible
Kind
More
Performer
Reach
Doing
Years
Past Few Years
Model
Role
Role Model
Young Girls
Movies
Asian
Showing
Actually
When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.
Joan Chen
You
People
Stronger
Other
About
Strongly
Something
Feel
Equally
Order
Succeed
It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.
Joe Chung
Time
Simple
Long
Long Time
Unbelievably
Simple Things
Takes
Understand
Always
Things
We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.
Joe Chung
Skin
See
Blind
Always
Than
Deeper
Things
Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.
Joe Chung
Good
Remember
Extremely
Come
Hard
Things
Necessarily
Love your work. Work hard for it.
John Gokongwei
Work
Love
Work Hard
Your
Hard
I don't rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.
John Gokongwei
Success
Work
Hard Work
Good
Luck
Believe
Good Luck
Rely
Us
Hard
Brings
I went to school here at the University of San Carlos for my primary and high school. I was valedictorian in grade school, and I was number one in high school, and because of that, I received free tuition in school. I thank the school for that.
John Gokongwei
School
Free
High
High School
Primary
Because
Thank
Grade
Grade School
Tuition
San
Received
Here
Number
University
Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy.
John Gokongwei
History
Build
Immigrants
Throughout
Economy
Built
Process
Fortunes
Who
Helped
I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.
John Gokongwei
Day
Lunch
Spend
All Day
Eat
Take
Hour
Nap
Even
Museum
Museums
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.
John Gokongwei
Age
Father
Immigrant
Great-Grandfather
Died
Grandfather
Lived
I'm from Cebu. I was one year old when I came here to Cebu from Fujian, south China. I'm Cebuano. I left for Manila when I was 22.
John Gokongwei
Old
Year
Year-Old
Came
South
Left
China
Manila
Here
Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don't. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time.
John Rocha
Beautiful
Time
Character
Own
Fabrics
Cotton
Develop
Over
Certain
Last
I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them.
John Rocha
Work
Me
People
Interior
Some People
Design
Out
Some
Never
Along
Come
Just
Want
Them
Set
Your 30s is the time to embrace bold, zingy colour patterns and to follow trends while taking time to get used to what really suits you.
John Rocha
Time
You
Suits
Trends
Embrace
Follow
Colour
Taking
Taking Time
Get
While
Patterns
Really
Your
Used
Bold
During fashion week, I dream about fashion; afterwards, I dream about fishing. After fashion week, I always go fishing to wind down.
John Rocha
Fashion
Wind
Down
Dream
About
Week
Always
Go
Fishing
After
Afterwards
I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.
John Rocha
Love
Wonderful
Think
Background
Finding
Table
Silhouette
Dress
Angle
Perfect
Shape
Bowl
Leg
Just
Form
Whether
Informed
Creating
My life is about family and friends as well as work.
John Rocha
Life
Work
Family
My Life
About
Well
Friends
Family And Friends
I have no idea why, but I find that men make more of an impact on me in films than women - even very beautiful ones.
John Rocha
Beautiful
Me
Women
Men
Films
Find
Impact
No Idea
More
Idea
Make
Very
Than
Even
Why
I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.
John Rocha
Work
Fashion
You
Vision
Discipline
Few
Own
Design
Harris
Though
Outfits
Costume
Tight
Years
Years Ago
Hand
Very
Being
Different
Richard
Turned
Created
Your
Sea
Brief
Fashion Designer
Rein
Designer
As I get older and older, people like my work more and more.
John Rocha
Work
People
Older
More
More And More
Like
Get
Older People
I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it.
John Rocha
Fashion
Unless
Claim
Architect
Something
Like
Know
Am
Trained
Anything
Expert
Fashion Designer
Designer
Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections - I never wanted to be a businessman.
John Rocha
Fashion
Heart
Collections
Remains
Never
Excited
Genuinely
Get
Closest
Wanted
Businessman
A woman can look incredibly sexy in a black suit.
John Rocha
Woman
Black
Incredibly
Sexy
Look
Suit
I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground.
John Rocha
Great
Own
Your
Show
Ground
Designer
British
Design has always been at the heart of our business.
John Rocha
Business
Heart
Design
Our
Always
Been
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