Ai Weiwei Quotes
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Life is like an analogy.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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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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You look at Kawhi Leonard, Tony Allen, Draymond Green: they are great on ball, and they are great team defenders as well. You want to be both of them, not just one.
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If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.
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Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.
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The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
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I'm not retiring.
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Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.
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Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
