Bong Joon-ho Quotes
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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I wake up to start dreaming.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar.
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Even when I haven't played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it. It's like this tunnel I go into. The zone is where I want to live.
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I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.
