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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.

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In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.

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This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.

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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

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Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

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My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

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I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

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China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew up. Its culture and history shape my relations with family, friends, society, and daily life.

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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today's political leaders are still lacking of the vision. They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things. Even today the borders they're seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.

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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.

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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.

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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.

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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

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