Zhang Ziyi Quotes
When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
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Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it.
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We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
