Bei Dao Quotes
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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We always make music and continue to make hits.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
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I definitely want to continue acting and performing.
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I just want to continue the way I am going.
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
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I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.
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I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.
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As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.
