Gao Xingjian Quotes
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
Quotes to Explore
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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What I can't fit into my suitcase is probably something I don't need.
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For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.
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You are never too old for applause. What's satisfying is that I'm being appreciated for what I was trained for.
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What I wanted to do was to look at the powerlessness that I felt as - and continue to feel at times - as a black man in the American streets. I know what it feels like to walk through the streets, knowing what it is to be in this body and how certain people respond to that body.
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Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.
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As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
