Wang Jianlin Quotes
Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, as if to a cat, all that I could have said.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.
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Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.
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Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.
