Guan Moye (Mo Yan) Quotes
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
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It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.
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In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
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I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
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Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.
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We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.
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The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
