Gao Xingjian Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
-
But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
-
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
-
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
-
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
-
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
-
When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
-
Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
-
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
-
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
-
Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
-
Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
-
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
-
Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
-
I really enjoy being an actor!
-
My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.
-
Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.
-
Iusque datum sceleri.
-
What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.
-
It ’s such a little thing to weep, So short a thing to sigh; And yet by trades the size of these We men and women die!
-
Somewhere other than the nightShe needs to hear I love you.Somewhere other than the nightShe needs to know you care.She wants to know she's needed,She needs to be held tightSomewhere other than the night.
-
After my divorce I was really down in the dumps. I wanted to reinvent myself.
-
When God talks to humans he doesn’t want humans to hear his voice.
