I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
JET LIEverywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate
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Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate
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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s.
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I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
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Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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But recently I’ve, the past few years, I’m more focused on meditation. It’s not a physical part. It’s more mental part, to understand life.
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Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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