Chen Guangcheng Quotes
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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It might be a lot easier to take risks if you're part of a group who will look out for one another.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.
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I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.
