Guan Moye (Mo Yan) Quotes
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
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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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An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.
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When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.
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I'm a fan of action movies.
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The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.
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There's eco-pragmatism, where you recognize, 'Yeah, we live on a planet that's permanently altered by humanity, and rather than seek to return to or preserve pure wilderness, we recognize that's an illusion, and we proceed under the new knowledge that we live, in fact, in a human-dominated planet.'
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McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.
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There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices.
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The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.
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There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
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It's very strange: I watch a lot of interviews with other actors that I know saying, 'Oh we had a great time; we're best buddies,' and I know for a fact that they didn't, and they actually hated each other.
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Much pruning had taken place in recent weeks. I am now absent in many versions of the cosmos where you are present.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I don't like planning what am I gonna say to the crowd. Sometimes the show takes a whole different twist.
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I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
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I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.
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People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.
