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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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 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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Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had helped me to survive, this lovely world that was to be mine when the war was over.
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Difference is the beginning of synergy.
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Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
