Jiang Wen Quotes
Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Golf is not easy.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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Making music is fantastic.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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It's hard to find a way to be good to your husband, be good to your kid, and be good to yourself.
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With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.
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I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.
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Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.
