When you are the only laowai in a village of 10, 000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog, " before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.
It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and...
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Deb Caletti
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
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Terry Pratchett
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
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Nicole Krauss
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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James Dean
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Alfred Hitchcock
More Quotes By Matthew Polly
Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji
This was not uncommon in government-run operations, where a request that someone do their job often induced a catatonic state that might last anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour.
When you are the only laowai in a village of 10, 000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog, " before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role...
A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb
