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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

Ai Weiwei

For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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Car Enjoy Overturning Police Probably Sport Super-intense Workout
I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

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