Bai Ling Quotes
I think I'm open to adventures and surprises. As a performer, I'm really just naturally talented. And those roles may not look as good on paper, but I know how to create them on screen. I like to have fun and interpret my roles in my own way.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
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Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.
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I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
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I guess I'm a workaholic!
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You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.
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Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims - at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours. How are we to distinguish the peaceful Muslims from the fanatical, homicidal Muslims about to murder thousands of our fellow citizens?
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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I think I'm open to adventures and surprises. As a performer, I'm really just naturally talented. And those roles may not look as good on paper, but I know how to create them on screen. I like to have fun and interpret my roles in my own way.
