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.
Quotes to Explore
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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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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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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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'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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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.
