Zhang Ziyi Quotes

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

Zhang Ziyi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: February 9, 1979

Topics

WorkTrustBeginningChanceEndYou

One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.

Andrew Rosenthal

WorkWorldActionBe PreparedNew

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map.

Spike Jonze

StartTryingYouEmotionsPerson

My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

Luke Benward

MotherHumbleBestDo Your BestMe

You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.

Diane Lane

LifeAgeYouFlexibleYourSpine

I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.

Chita Rivera

OutSpreadGetLikeWord

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

Christopher Hitchens

HistoryCultureRedneckGroupWay

The blockchain concept was pioneered within the context of crypto-currency Bitcoin, but engineers have imagined many other ways for distributed ledger technology to streamline the world. Stock exchanges and big banks, for example, are looking at blockchain-type systems as trading settlement platforms.

Anthony Scaramucci

TechnologyWorldLookingEngineers

I'm super active, so sitting on the couch and staring at the walls isn't ideal for me.

Ali Krieger

WallsMeSittingActiveStaring

I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.

Philip Pullman

WritingBoringOutPlotThirdTried

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

Peter T. King

PresentSecurityNational Security

I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight.

Tim Daly

PathCollegeWorldRichMy OwnKid

When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.

Richard Karn

LifePeopleYouLeadNormalAffect

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