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.
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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 approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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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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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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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 sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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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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The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election Day.
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I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.
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It's important that the director and actor have good chemistry, and not just the actors.
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Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
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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.
