Ziya Tong Quotes
“We may well be the only species on Earth to actively deprive our own kind from inhabiting a space when it is available.”
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
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The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.
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Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
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I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.
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The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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“We may well be the only species on Earth to actively deprive our own kind from inhabiting a space when it is available.”
