Godfrey Gao Quotes
Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.
Godfrey Gao
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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.
Ma Jun
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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.
J. G. Ballard
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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.
Pat Buchanan
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In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.
Zhang Zhidong
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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.
Taylor Sheridan
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I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
Larry the Cable Guy
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if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.
Doris Day
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[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'
Stephen Fry
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That's all she does - she almost doesn't recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We're the ones who are suffering. She's not.
Agnes Varda
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If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
Bette Davis
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Stay strong. Stay true to yourself and to who you are because there is community out there. It may not be in your town or perhaps even in your family, but you are wanted and you are loved and there are places in the world where you will be safe and supported.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.
Godfrey Gao
