Bai Ling Quotes
English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.
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I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different.
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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.
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English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
