Wen Jiabao Quotes
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
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It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.
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So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
