Lei Jun Quotes
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
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It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.
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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.
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If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I'm I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I'm supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know?
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When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.
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I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.
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Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.
