Zhou Xun Quotes
It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.
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Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.
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I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can't really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.
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There is this thing called Actors Access, which is run by the breakdown services. What they do is they put up casting notices that are available to everyone. Because there's thousands and thousands of actors and there are student films and grad student films and, sometimes, some small independent projects that are on there.
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Success is not easy. But it is worth the price.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
