Ba Jin Quotes
I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.
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I will not be deterred from my mission of helping kids in this country.
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If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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My first love was the sound of guitar.
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I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
