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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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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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 don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.
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I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.
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To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.
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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.
