Li Na Quotes
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.
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I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.
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You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
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People know what I'm doing.
