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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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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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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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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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'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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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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When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
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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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It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.
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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
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I'll continue to grow and become a singer that melts hearts.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.
