Zhang Yimou Quotes

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

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• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Restaurants

• The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Work
  • Travel
  • Quiet

• We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Remember
  • Revolution
  • Right

• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Window

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• This family at Barbour, they've made me feel very welcome.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Family
  • Me
  • Welcome

• The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

  

  Ice T
  • Real
  • Why
  • Want

• There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Single
  • Moments

• What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

  

  David McCandless

• You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • World
  • Children
  • Kids

• I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Free
  • Alone
  • Credit

• My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Inspires
  • Motto

• Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Believe
  • Funny
  • Point

• The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Time
  • Cool
  • Swimming

• Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Taste
  • Proportion
  • Originals

• It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Knows
  • Thing

• The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Play
  • Knows
  • Hard

• I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Years

• I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Knows
  • Taste
  • Western