Ziyi Zhang Quotes
My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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I want the whole world to watch me fight. But you know if people are just tuning in to hear me trash talk are not fight fans.
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To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
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The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.
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My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
