"In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play."

-- David Morse

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“Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.”
“There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.”
“I am a pretty good actor. Most of my friendships are based on the fact that I pretend to be outgoing and funny in social situations, but when I get home, I tend to isolate myself because I am actually somewhat bipolar and introverted.”
“At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.”

Source : The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.
“There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.”
“As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.”
“Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.”
“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”

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