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Ma Jun Quotes

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: environmentalist
Nationality: chinese
Birth: May 22, 1968

Topics

Job Environmental America You China

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

Empathy Evil Absence Been Idea

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

Life Work Hard Work Writing Rest

It's so rare when marketing and press doesn't ruin your movie.

Marketing Rare Ruin Press Your

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

Michael Bloomberg

Work Good Politics You Back Tax

I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

Mother Art Creative Me Choose Young

I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in has forced me into being a salesman - that's the last thing that 17-year-old me would imagine I'd end up being. I'm uncomfortable trying to sell anything, but that's what you're doing every time you walk into a pitch.

Business Time Walk Me End Doing

I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would have to stop acting altogether in order to become a painter. At the moment, I'm still interested and active as an actor and director. Besides, I rather think acting and painting are all part of the same creative urge.

Moment Creative Painting Think Stop

I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away.

Love Beginning Racism Violence Find

My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on TV.

Guilty Pants Pleasure Seen TV Shows

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

Truth Truth Is You Measure Bad Just

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

History Great Common Sense New Talk

I had seen other comic friends of mine go to indie labels. Like David Cross and Pat Oswald went to Subpop, and Subpop didn't make total sense for me, but the metal version of that did. So I made a small list with Metal Blade, Prosthetic and couple of other labels, and Relapse was one of them.

Me Small Friends Go Seen Metal

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