Qiu Miaojin Quotes
My need for true love isn't so important now. The important thing is to lead a life where no one can wound me anymore.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on your way to having abilities and skills as to be able to spit-shine a pair of shoes like they're patent leather. You're a bad dude. To spit-shine a pair of shoes. So, even to that small detail, that aided me and assisted me in becoming the artist that I am. My uncles' sense of style, their type of ties they used. The way they wore their suits, big and huge and baggy. The way they did their haircuts with the side burns. All of that.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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Life has been a really big whirlwind, but it's been a lot of fun. I travel so much, and I'm constantly doing things that I love, but it's just me.
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You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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My need for true love isn't so important now. The important thing is to lead a life where no one can wound me anymore.
