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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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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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I feel an important part of beauty is not only what you do on the outside but also what you put into the inside. Good fresh food with many vegetables along with love and caring for others. I spend way more time serving others than I do on my beauty routine daily.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
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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.
