Maggie Cheung Quotes
I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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There's no business like show business.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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Les chrétiens n'ont qu'un Dieu, maître absolu de tout,De qui le seul vouloir fait tout ce qu'il résout;Mais, si j'ose entre nous dire ce que me semble,Les nôtres bien souvent s'accordent mal ensemble,Et, me dût leur colère écraser à tes yeux,Nous en avons beaucoup pour être de vrais dieux.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.
