Xu Zhimo Quotes
My personal experience has only discovered two classes of people in China; Cynics who despise love and cowards who are afraid of it.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I love recording music.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
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I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.
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I'm an only child, and after making the movie Yours, Mine and Ours, I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.
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Rural voters believed the Democrats traded millions in campaign cash at their expense. Along came a guy named Trump to give these voters a political voice.
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Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.
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My personal experience has only discovered two classes of people in China; Cynics who despise love and cowards who are afraid of it.
