Wang Jianlin Quotes
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.
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We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
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But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
