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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When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.
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I was bullied at school.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.
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As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.
