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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

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Amber Hurdle

"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."

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Amber Hurdle

"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."

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Amber Hurdle

"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

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Amber Hurdle

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

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Amber Hurdle

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

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Amber Hurdle

"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

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Amber Hurdle

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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Amber Hurdle

"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."

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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
"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, 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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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
"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."

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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
"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."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

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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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