Ma Jian Quotes

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

Ma Jian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night.

Jim Mitchell

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If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually raise the age of Medicare eligibility a bit, according to income, and save money.

Joe Klein

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Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn't be able to see a difference.

John Knoll

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All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

Anna C. Brackett

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From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.

RuPaul

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An all-white space has a purity that is refreshing and serene.

Mary Helen Bowers

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For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

Brene Brown

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I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.

Bonnie Tyler

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I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.

Brie Larson

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I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.

William Shatner

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I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

William Westmoreland

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My style motto is pretty classic: you give off a positive energy when you wear what you're most comfortable in.

Petra Collins

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