Ai Weiwei Quotes
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this – mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
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I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
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Consult duty not events.
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Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.
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I am busy with my work. I am committed to Gujarat and I am dedicated to Gujarat. I never talk about my image, never spent a single minute for my image and confusions may be there.
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Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they're that character. That is something you can't teach an actor; that's something that's luck and chance.
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Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.
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Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.
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People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.
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I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!
