Gao Xingjian Quotes
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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We were depending on considerable assistance from the insurrectionists in France. Throughout France the Free French had been of inestimable value in the campaign. ... Without their great assistance the liberation of France and the defeat of the enemy in Western Europe would have consumed a much longer time and meant greater losses to ourselves.
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A lot of boxers have too much on their plate.
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Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.
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You've got to find it the path to wealth on your own...No one else can find it for you.
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Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
