Li Na Quotes
I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned so much from just watching her. But she's also so unassuming that I loved working with her. It wasn't like working with a star, it was Sissy. Not a big deal.
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Bill Polian and I agreed when we first came together with the Buffalo Bills that we'd bring players only of high character to the team.
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The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
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I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.
