Jiang Wen Quotes

Painters who do self-portraits are engaging in a form of narcissism. But it doesn't work like that in movies. A truly narcissistic person wouldn't go into filmmaking because it's just too tiring.

Jiang Wen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: January 5, 1963

Topics

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As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.

Jim Costa

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What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!

Jean-Michel Jarre

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I never wear very serious suits. I don't have to because I don't go to an office, so it's fine.

Jean Pigozzi

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People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

Spike Lee

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We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.

Tony La Russa

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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Tony Robbins

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I went off to Harvard Law School for six weeks, and then I said, 'Doggone this, it's not what I want to do.' I remember when I told my dad I was leaving law school, and I wanted to go into football. He said, 'Be a good coach.'

Marv Levy

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I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.

Constance Zimmer

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In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.

Bobby Lashley

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I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.

Britt Ekland

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Acting, for me, was kind of a way of survival, honestly. I'm the baby boy out of four different sisters, and I grew up in a house with so many different personalities that acting was the only way to not go to therapy.

Brian Tyree Henry

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