Park Chan-wook Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.
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I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.
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Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.
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Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
