Ma Jian Quotes
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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We all have a responsibility to advance the process of reconciliation, and as a political leader, I am committed to leading from the front and to continue to take bold and significant steps.
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Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
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I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.
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My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.
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TV needs advertising for more than just the money. Advertising plays a significant role in creating a dynamic and vibrant medium and needs to be at the heart of the experience.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
