Li Na Quotes
I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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Everyone knows I'm a huge fan of Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake. For me, it would be more than an honor to work with these talented musicians.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
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I talk about everything. I'm like the person who comes home and can't hide anything. Even my friends sometimes are like, 'Kate, you've got to stop talking so much about your life.' And I'm like, 'Why?' I can't keep things in, really.
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In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper.
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I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.
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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
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I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.
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Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
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I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.
