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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An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
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I've defended the Clintons longer than I've been a liberal, but I don't have any nostalgia for that.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
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If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.
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Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
