"Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that."

-- Zhang Ziyi

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“Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.”
“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.”
“What you receive is directly connected to what you believe”
“The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.”

Source : Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.191, Courier Corporation
“There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps Iâ€™m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.”
“The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts.”

Source : José Raúl Capablanca (1920). “My Chess Career”
“One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.”
“Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.”

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