Park Chan-wook Quotes
Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I love books.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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If you ask anyone who my mum's blue-eyed boy is, they will say it is me.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.
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I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the book, what they read could only confirm all the stereotypes that they have about us and about people like us.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
