Brother Yun (Liu Zhenying) Quotes
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.
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If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
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I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
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Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
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I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
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I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
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Packing lunches and going over menus is a great way to make small changes in the way your kids eat.
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I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.
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Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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You don’t need miracles in the west. You have insurance.
