Ziyi Zhang Quotes
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My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
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I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.
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I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life?
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I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
