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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We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
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I am really excited about Battle of the Stars, the line-up looks fantastic. I've no doubt that despite their fame my hand holding will still be in high demand as they take on the judges often harsh words. Lets just hope I'm not having to mop up too many tears!
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
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We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
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Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
