Liu Wen Quotes
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
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Wrestling - It isn't just a passion, it's my future.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State.
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Striped shirts and printed shorts, jeans, and trousers are all items I buy and wear a lot in my private life.
