Gao Xingjian Quotes

When God talks to humans he doesn’t want humans to hear his voice.

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• 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.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• 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.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • 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.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  

  Ian Hart
  • American
  • Films
  • Attracted

• 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.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Job
  • Best
  • Author

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Think
  • Always
  • Spark

• 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.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Change

• Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • About
  • Application

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• 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.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Know
  • Poetry
  • Learn

• Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Way
  • You
  • Care

• I really enjoy being an actor!

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Enjoy
  • Actor
  • Being

• 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.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Style
  • Like
  • 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.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Business
  • Kind
  • Successful

• There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

  

  Alistair Maclean
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities - these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Country
  • Unity

• But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • She
  • Interesting
  • Comforting

• He Taika Watiti worked on this screenplay for a couple of years and just getting it right and the result is there. He's made really close to a perfect film Hunt for the Wilderpeople... Perfect as you can be.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Perfect
  • Film
  • Couple

• When God talks to humans he doesn’t want humans to hear his voice.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • God