Park Chan-wook Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Be obscure clearly.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.
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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
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A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he Bill Clinton is not tough on crime.
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The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
