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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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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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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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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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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The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
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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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When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.
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Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.
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I'm a storyteller – that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.
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What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.
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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.
