Yang Wanli Quotes
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
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The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
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It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.
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There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.
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I drink alone in my study, huddled close to the brazier.
