Liu Wen Quotes
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.
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For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
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I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person.
