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.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Endless
  • Tire
  • Sequels

• I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • True
  • New York

• Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Starting

• 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.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Task

• Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Good
  • Children
  • Best

• I'm just a worker.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Just
  • Worker

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Worth
  • Having

• I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Love
  • Timing
  • Austin

• I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • Tired

• I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Listening
  • Tired
  • Petty

• For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Dying

• I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • World
  • War
  • Training

• 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.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • World
  • Great
  • Technology

• 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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Boss

• 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.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Children

• Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Live
  • Die
  • Sorry

• And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Control

• You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.

  

  Jeff Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Political
  • Worry

• 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.

  

  Gao Xingjian