Liu Wen Quotes

I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person.

Liu Wen

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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.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • People
  • Politics
  • Ethical

• Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Advice
  • Wants

• 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!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Way
  • Thought
  • Hollywood

• I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Things
  • Needed
  • Challenged

• 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.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Look
  • My Life

• I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • True
  • Mother

• There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Actor

• It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Forget
  • Easy
  • Noise

• I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• Change is the one thing we can be sure of.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Change
  • Sure
  • One Thing

• Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Goal
  • Leadership
  • Common

• 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!

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Career
  • Respect

• Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • True
  • You
  • Wisdom

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • People
  • Know
  • Shy

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Work
  • Me
  • Actor

• When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Celebrity

• It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

  

  Jeff Beck
  • People
  • Business
  • Celebrity

• The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • World
  • Writing
  • America

• I'm enjoying [my career]. If anything I'm aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was in America - I mean that energy of having such a rapid and ascending celebrity - it's not there anymore. It's the end of that chapter and now I'm just enjoying the work probably more than I ever have and yet I'm simultaneously less attached to it I think, which is kind of a strange state of grace to be in.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Work
  • America
  • Career

• I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with every project.

  

  Mawra Hocane
  • Focus

• I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person.

  

  Liu Wen
  • Celebrity