"Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways."

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Source : "Home truths from the exile". Interview With Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2004.

Ma Jian

#Dust Quotes #Opening Up Quotes #People Quotes

“A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.”
“If someone accidentally ingests sodium azide, you shouldn't try to resuscitate the person because you could die, too, giving CPR. This is a highly toxic chemical.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.”
“The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.”
“I think there's more women that watch me than men, but I don't look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.”
“I will support the Republican nominee.”
“In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.”

Source : "For Actor Danny Pintauro, There's Life Beyond TV / Former `Who's the Boss?' star looking for challenges" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 2000.
“Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.”

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