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“To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.”

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“New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.”

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“I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.”

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“I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.”

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“I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.”

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“I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.”

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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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“In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.”

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