Lucy Liu Quotes
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
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False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.
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I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.
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I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
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I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.
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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.
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Freddie Aguilar, who's billed as 'the Bob Dylan of the Philippines.' This is unfair, since he's good-looking, plays the guitar well, can carry a tune, and writes songs that make sense.
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And yet she had never felt so bereft, as if her presence in other lives were entirely illusory, as if she herself were a kind of facsimile, pleasant but inauthentic. Before she got too old she must wrest some part of her life for herself, or she would fade, vanish, before anyone noticed her disappearance
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Perhaps if there were less certitude about our climate future, more Americans would be interested in having a reasoned conversation about it.
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I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.
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I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't – that to me is not life.
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Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.
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I try to distinguish my characters from each other.
