Jet Li Quotes
Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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I don't think about records.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.
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I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
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David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.
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The way you carry your name is the vibe people get off it.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
