Gao Xingjian Quotes
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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.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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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.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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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.
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Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
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Knowing that there is a community of people on every corner of this planet that believes in justice, that is willing to sacrifice, and that is willing to take a stand is the most heartening thing.
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It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.
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Worry makes you sick. Worry less, live as long as you like.
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When God talks to humans he doesn’t want humans to hear his voice.
