Guan Moye (Mo Yan) Quotes
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I don't judge my characters.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
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I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
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It all comes down to taking control of your life, education enables you to read, reading gives you power, the power to make decisions that you want to make.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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No person writes to win awards.
