Godfrey Gao Quotes
Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.
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The combined entity Youku Tudou Inc. represents a dominant leader in online video sector in China with the largest user base, most comprehensive content library, most advanced bandwidth infrastructure, and most effective monetization capability.
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I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
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Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
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Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
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In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.
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In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.
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I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
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Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.
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I thought it was very odd that I had a cross and that I was sticking it in a box saying terrible language. But I have to say that I did not understand.
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I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.
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A society that rewards people for violence will get more violence. A society that tolerates people who violate the non-aggression principle will be ruled by aggressive people. A society that believes aggression is necessary in order to function will institutionalize coercion and reward those who provide what it considers necessary.
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Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.
