Ai Weiwei Quotes
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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I never imagined myself playing a superhero because I don't see myself the way superheroes have been portrayed or shown to me my entire life.
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
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Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.
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There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.
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I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.
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The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.
