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“We must be up and doing while it is called to-day. It is the right time.”

“It all comes down to the quality of the song.”

“I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.”

“Human beings are difficult.”

“Tradition is not constant and static; it grows and builds.”

“我就是這個年紀，我就是再老，我就是一直在做，你們也幹不掉我。”

“其實我唱歌是為全體中國人而唱的，和台灣、大陸都沒有關係。”

“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

“The concept of originality is completely relative.”

“When you do these factory films, as I call them, these mainstream films, you try to improve in terms of logic, in terms of production, editing, acting, scriptwriting, in terms of all the aspects of filmmaking.”

“When you do that let me tell you what I know for sure. That’s when your story gets really good.”

“The question is will we do it?”

““People hear me talk about something and they realize that this is something they can talk about themselves.””

“It is liberty which is ancient, and despotism which is modern.”

“We had total freedom to do what we wanted to do.”

“For me, returning home was not a question. It was my obligation to work and speak on behalf of my people.”

“To resist is to be a poet and to live an uninterrupted metaphor.”

“It’s about you succeeding in business that uplifts everyone.”

“I started as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without having ceased to be a Christian.”

“so it came that being in the bush and feeling the delight and fascination of the great pastoral life and work I have tried to express it”