Wong Kar-wai Quotes
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.
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I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
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And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?
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We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love.
