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.Gao Xingjian
Quotes to Explore
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
Edgar Wright -
I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
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 -
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
Ted Kulongoski -
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 -
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
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
Zoltan Kodaly -
I'm just a worker.
Calvin Johnson -
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma Gandhi -
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
Ramana Maharshi -
I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
Felicity Jones -
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
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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.
Rachel Zoe -
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 -
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.
Abraham Cowley -
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.
Zahi Hawass -
'We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.'
Banksy -
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
L. Ron Hubbard
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
Orson Scott Card -
Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.
Charles B. Rangel -
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
Preston Brooks -
Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
Jane Austen -
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