Lou Jiwei Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
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It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.
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You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.
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A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.
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Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
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I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive.
