Ma Jian Quotes

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

Ma Jian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: August 18, 1953

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The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

Jessica Lange

WorkGreatMyselfYouSometimes

War remains the decisive human failure.

John Kenneth Galbraith

FailureWarHumanDecisiveRemains

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

John Hume

LeaderPeopleThoughtNeverBeing

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Matthew Simpson

FaithGreatPastPresentKnow

The human world lives in a framework called global economics. We live in a system based on GDP, which drives consumption. it causes people to compete with each other through trade in a way that they all grow.

John Sulston

LivePeopleEconomicsWorldGrow

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

Stella Adler

YouBeyondExperiencesPreciousOwn

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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It is a myth that married women do not get work. Those days are gone now. So, if you think I hid my marriage for that reason, it's not true.

Roop Durgapal

WorkMarriageWomenThinkYouTrue

I would never give up 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' and 'Game of Thrones.' I'm grateful for all these expensive, excellent, graphically ambitious programs.

Mary H.K. Choi

Never Give UpGratefulGameBadUp

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

Lucy Powell

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But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

Jay Chiat

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Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Jonathan Richman

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