Chloe Zhao Quotes
I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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A definition of philosophy and her sense consists in her assignment that it is a science about the being as a being.
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If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now.'
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Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.
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To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
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My career is really, really important, and I love it, but the life highs - like seeing my son graduate - need to me to be more important than the career highs, which are fleeting.
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I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.
