Jiang Wen Quotes

I never control a film. The film controls me.

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• In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Best
  • Opinion
  • Georgia

• The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Interesting
  • You
  • Amazing

• Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Problem
  • Risk
  • Financial

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • You
  • Know
  • Politics

• Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • People
  • Party
  • Fashion

• The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

  

  Tana French
  • Find
  • Situation
  • Author

• I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Musician

• In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Weird

• I did some good things as a rookie.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • Good Things
  • Rookie

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Food
  • Growth
  • Service

• I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Need

• I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Different
  • Remember

• I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Reality
  • Way
  • You

• I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Me

• The law of all modern states takes account of associations, whose members, in theory, pursue the common end with equal zeal. The experience of all associations proves, however, that this is not the case, and that a lively, constant and vigorous awareness of the end is found only in a minority of the associates; an association is really rather like a comet—a large tail of docile followers dragged along by a small dynamic head.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Experience
  • Law
  • Associations

• My baby ohhhCome take control, just grab a holdOf my body and mind; soon we'll be making itHoney, oh we're feeling fineYou're my medicine. Open up and let me in.Darling, you're so great;I can't wait for you to operate.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mind

• The minute the money is more, you lose your control, so then there's no point.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Money
  • Control

• I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

  

  Jane Campion
  • Control
  • Moments
  • Imagination

• In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Magic

• I never control a film. The film controls me.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • Control