Ueda Akinari Quotes

Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest

Ueda Akinari

• World
• Heart
• Water
• Rest
• Mountain
• Tea

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• Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

  

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• Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

  

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• Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest

  

  Ueda Akinari
  • World
  • Heart
  • Water