Gao Xingjian Quotes
What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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I'm just a worker.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
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I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.
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I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
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Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
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There are things - I want to compete in a big tournament, like an eight-man tournament, like the old fighters. You're going to compete; you're going to fight this one and this one.
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My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?" There's always a good vampire now, but do any of them sleep in coffins? And I would bring her down to my library and say, "Here's every classic vampire literature. There are coffins, there's this, there's that," you know? "When you get to the YA stuff, you may try some of this stuff just to see where it came from."
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What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.
