Ma Jian Quotes
In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.
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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
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I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
