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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To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.
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One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere.
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Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.
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For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.
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I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.
