Li Bingbing Quotes
I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
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So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
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When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.
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'The Descendants' somehow made death and adultery funny at times.
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In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
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It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
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I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.
