"For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in."

-- Gao Xingjian

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes

“May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.”
“The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.
“What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?”

Source : "How to Get a Job at Google". mobile.nytimes.com. February 22, 2014.
“I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.”
“I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I'll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.”
“Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like most good Christians, they felt we ought to be punished for our unorthodox views.”
“If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather than making nostalgic images to record something that will later become lost.”
“If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.”

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