Dalai Lama Quotes
As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it.
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There's inherent cultural imbalance whenever you're translating from Chinese to English. Educated Chinese readers are expected not only to know about all the Chinese references - history, language, culture, all this stuff - but to be well-versed in Western references as well.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
