Chow Yun-Fat Quotes
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
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It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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My view is the core engine supporting India's growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient.
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Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
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There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.
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My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.
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In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.
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I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical.
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We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.
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When I dress up, I have to have a lot of help. I was in a T-shirt until a few minutes ago.
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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Ella!" the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.
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As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
