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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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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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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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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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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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.
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Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)
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We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love.
