"I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me."

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Source : "Chinese Modern Literature Laureate Expected to Become Centenarian". en.people.cn. August 13, 2001.

Ba Jin

#Royalty Quotes #Reader Quotes

“Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.”
“Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you" Birds singing in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me”
“Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.”
“Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.”
“In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.”
“I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.”
“Didn't we all have dreams when we were young? But the reality of making a living took over when we had to pay our bills, rent our apartments, raise our families, and take care of others. We sacrificed our dreams, repressed them, or delegated them to the background until they were so far away that we forgot they ever existed.”
“Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things.”

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