Guan Moye (Mo Yan) Quotes
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
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There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
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I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.
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I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.
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A library is a growing organism.
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I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.
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It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.
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The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
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In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
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Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
