Jiang Wen Quotes

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

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• Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Wall
  • Trump
  • Down

• Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • World
  • Science
  • Where

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• 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.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Women
  • Family
  • Think

• I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Know
  • Romantic

• 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.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Passion
  • For Her

• Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Nature
  • Political

• I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Important
  • Family
  • Giving

• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Lose

• 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.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Depression
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • War
  • Death
  • Know

• '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.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Done
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Me
  • Never
  • Notes

• 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.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Children
  • You
  • Television

• I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Want
  • Talent

• I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Done
  • Career

• Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Rock
  • My Life

• Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Change
  • Best
  • Easy

• Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • Trying
  • Interesting