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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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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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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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
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Everybody looks at their poop.
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Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.
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Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.
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I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
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We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love.
