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There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

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• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • Insanity
  • Adjustment

• For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Train

• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • Follow

• Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Business
  • Experience

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Life
  • Parents

• Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Language
  • Consequences

• I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Memories

• I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Violence
  • After
  • Ended

• I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Trouble

• I support all Australian films.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Support
  • Films
  • Australian

• That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Life
  • Own
  • Away

• Brad Pitt has something about him to where he's played different characters in all his movies, and every single time after he's done, I want to be him.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mood

• Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sometimes
  • Calling
  • Brands

• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Space

• When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.

  

  Miguel Zenon
  • Music
  • Everything
  • Development

• I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Think
  • English
  • Teeth

• There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

  

  Andy Lau