Wendi Deng Murdoch Quotes
As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
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My ultimate crush may be Judith McNaught - I met her once more than 20 years ago, and she was incredibly kind and encouraging to me. I adore that woman. But I also fangirl over aspiring or beginning authors, because every time I talk with them, I'm so energized and inspired.
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As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.
