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Chiaki Kuriyama

"We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires."

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"We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires."

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"We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires."

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Donna Grant

"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons."

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Donna Grant

"My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained."

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Donna Grant

"We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons."

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Donna Grant

"We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons."

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Donna Grant

"Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily."

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Donna Grant

"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack."

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Donna Grant

"But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons."

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Donna Grant

"Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes."

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Donna Grant

"To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."

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