The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but thats it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test. – Joan Chen
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 its possible to actually reach success doing movies. – Joan Chen
Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end – therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further. – Joan Chen
The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers