Wong Kar-wai Quotes

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.

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• I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • God
  • Job

• My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Care
  • Daughter

• I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Down

• Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Character
  • Death
  • Parents

• Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Myself
  • Creative
  • West

• I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Always
  • See
  • Luxury

• My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Women
  • Home
  • Mother

• I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Girl

• I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Real
  • Interesting

• I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl

• It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Job

• I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Know
  • Like
  • Discipline

• I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Great
  • Places
  • Modeling

• The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • People
  • Great
  • Know

• Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Faith
  • Competition
  • Challenges

• Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Drug

• I couldn't wait to borrow his 'magic pencil' and try my own hand at drawing these comic-strip characters, ... It was a major discovery, and I was floating on air with excitement.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Character
  • Hand
  • Air

• Many entrepreneurs resist to owing up to the conditions that created the shortcoming—conditions they themselves may have contributed to. They need to put ownership of the problem above the egotistical need of always wanting to look good. If they don’t, failure will result.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Problem
  • Failure
  • Created

• But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is understood as referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures; only then could my fraudulence be a project and not merely a pathology; only then could my distance from myself be redescribed as critical, aesthetic, as opposed to a side effect of what experts might call my substance problem, felicitous phrase, the origins of which lay not in my desire to evade reality, but in my desire to have a chemical excuse for reality’s unavailability.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Problem
  • Failure
  • Language

• The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Problem
  • Organization
  • Workers

• I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.

  

  Wong Kar-wai
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  • Certain
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