Chow Yun-Fat Quotes
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.
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On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.
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It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
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You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.
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It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.
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That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.
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Everybody's funny if you love them.
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I'm a sitcom junky. And I love rom coms. Mind candy.
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The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.
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As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.
