Bong Joon-ho Quotes
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.
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The Internet is a gift to fashion.
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You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.
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At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.
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I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.
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Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations, for the sake of an ideal of happiness that may never be realised.
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I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
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Actors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.
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It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
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The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.
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I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead.
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The present is the only thing that has no end.
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When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.
