Zhang Ziyi Quotes
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.
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I think it's all been fantastic. It has only been 45 minutes and we've already done really well.
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I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
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Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
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Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.