Rinko Kikuchi Quotes
I've seen 'Babel' four times. And each time I realize anew what a monumental project that had been for me.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
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Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
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It's a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It's just something you have to do.
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The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.
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I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
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I believe in following opportunities.
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Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.
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You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.
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Most of the available Indian films in Australia are Bollywood. I did not watch them. In my early days, I watched Satyajit Ray's 'Apu Trilogy,' which was a beautiful take on social realism.
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The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.
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I love men's wear.
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.
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Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.
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I've seen 'Babel' four times. And each time I realize anew what a monumental project that had been for me.
