Chow Yun-Fat Quotes
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.
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I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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You can't be like, 'Alright, I'm going to make this viral!' You just put stuff out there, and you hope that people engage and resonate with it.
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I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.
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Anybody can leap off a building.
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I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
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Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.
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Perhaps his love for her made him less than impartial, but he also knew how deeply she'd been hurt and chided her for judging herself so much more harshly than she would have judged someone else…
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When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
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I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.
