Guan Moye (Mo Yan) Quotes
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
Quotes to Explore
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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I want to reduce my risks as much as possible and hopefully be able to go to the World Cup fit, ready and healthy.
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I don't like violence.
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As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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I have long been a supporter of The Princes Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch Amex Be Inspired and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was delighted to get involved.
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Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
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Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.
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Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.
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Motion pictures are just beginning to live up to their true potential of being immersive experience - going from beyond black and white flickering images to fully immersive 3D color high-definition. You don't even know where the real world starts and the fake world begins. And yet, none of that's going to matter unless the story and the emotions that they allow us to become invested in are something that we can recognize. Pixar is able to do this in ways that almost defies speculation.
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But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.
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I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirely invented, ninety-five percent. And even when I do borrow something, it becomes fictionalized.
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Some period pieces are shot slightly objectively, a little bit, and some call it stuffy or dusty or old fashioned. I always felt that some of the films that I admire the most are the ones where they're intimate with the characters.
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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
