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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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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A thriller is supposed to thrill you! So it's the plotting of the movie and the unveiling of the story which is important.
Nastassja Kinski
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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
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We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.
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It is essential that you realize that you are nothing in yourself. If you are rich and satisfied, you cannot receive anything from God. It is frightful to meet that spirit in a person. It totally hinders all spiritual growth and development.
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.