Godfrey Gao Quotes

I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.

Godfrey Gao

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• When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

  

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• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

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• I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

  

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• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  

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• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

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• There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

  

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• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

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  • Good
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• I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Good
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• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

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• I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

  

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• I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

  

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• I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.

  

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• The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

  

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• If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

  

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• So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
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• I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.

  

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• A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

  

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• Trying to forget or hide your mistakes is a huge error. Rather, hold them near and dear to your heart. Wear them proudly.

  

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• She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.

  

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• I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Working
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• I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.

  

  Godfrey Gao
  • Brother
  • Working
  • Television