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"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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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."

"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."

"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

"We know for a fact that the body is able to process colloidal silver quite well if it is made correctly and the dosage levels and concentrations are not too high."

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

"The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding."

"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."
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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

"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."

"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."

"I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories."

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

"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."

"A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl in this movie. The English title isn't decided yet, but in Japanese it's I'll Get on the A Train Sometime."

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

"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."

"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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