Jiang Wen Quotes
Other people's films are like a cocktail, a little alcohol with water and juice. My films are like pure vodka.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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We just here to do our job.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.
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Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.
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My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.
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We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.
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Other people's films are like a cocktail, a little alcohol with water and juice. My films are like pure vodka.
