Bai Ling Quotes
I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very content.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
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I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.
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Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.
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Capitalism is the least romantic conception of a public order that the human mind has ever conceived.
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The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
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I really hate my hair when it's not braided because it's so big when it dries. When it's wet, it looks cool, but when it dries, it gets all in my mouth during a match, and I hate it.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
