Jiang Wen Quotes
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I don't really care how I sound.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.
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This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
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I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
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It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure.
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I think it was Osama bin Laden’s idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq.
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Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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I like my buddies to come out to shows on weekends, but they hardly ever get to any.
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I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.
