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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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
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Always help the persecuted.
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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
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Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.
