Gao Xingjian Quotes
Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.
Gao Xingjian
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
Jack Reynor
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
Daniel Barber
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
T. J. Miller
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
Gabrielle Zevin
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
Mal Peet
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
Madeleine Albright
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
Yolanda Adams
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
Eddie Albert
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
Naima Adedapo
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
Rachel Kushner
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
Tammy Bruce
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I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.
Jacqueline Woodson
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Come to Washington to help America put pressure on this administration.
Ann Wright
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
Kate Bernheimer
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Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.
Gao Xingjian
