Bong Joon-ho Quotes
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.
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I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.
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My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.
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Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.
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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
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I think finales are always so hit or miss because they're so personal. When you do a finale, it's always up to the person watching it.
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Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word 'text' unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?
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I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.
