Quotes by Chinese authors
I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.
Donnie Yen
Actor
When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and uncontrollability and is an important means for me to relieve myself of constraint.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese artist
I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.
Maggie Cheung
Former actress
In addition to an excellent government-level bilateral relationship Japan and New Zealand have built up a number of multi-layered cultural interactions and people-to-people exchanges through trade, tourism and sports.
Fumio Kishida
Japanese politician
It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
Hu Shih
Chinese diplomat
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu
Chinese philosopher
I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.
Jet Li
Film actor
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu
Chinese philosopher
We will carry out reforms of the medical and nursing care systems with the citizens' perspective in mind in order to realize a fully-functioning primary care doctor system.
Fumio Kishida
Japanese politician
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong
Former President of the People's Republic of China
I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all on the surface.
Ken Liu
American writer
I have admired Taufik Hidayat for being exceptionally talented and Hendrawan for being a great player only because of his hard work and dedication. I have always looked up to them as players.
Lin Dan
Chinese badminton player
I think I'm like a free spirit.
Bai Ling
Chinese-American actress
I think players changing coaches is normal.
Li Na
Chinese tennis player
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Mao Zedong
Former President of the People's Republic of China
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius
Chinese philosopher
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
Katherine Paterson
American writer
When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I left, so China is already within me.
Gao Xingjian
Novelist
The first time I showed the tattoo, it was big news in the newspaper: 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake.
Li Na
Chinese tennis player
The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.
Margaret Chan
Former Director of Health of Hong Kong
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