Zhang Yimou Quotes
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.
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The 347 wins is the thing I'm most proud of. Nobody's even close to it.
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My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.
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We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
