Chen Guangbiao Quotes
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
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At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.
