Park Chan-wook Quotes
I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
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From the perspective of those who are entitled, the problems begin when those they despise do not go along with-and have the power and wherewithal to not go along with-the perceived entitlement.
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History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
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Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
