Jiang Wen Quotes
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
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As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.
