Park Chan-wook Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
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When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that whole day. That's what I aim to do in Rio - my focus is gold, so I can keep in that good state; I can't get too complacent. I can't relax; I can't be content. I need to be 100 per cent switched on.
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We are all consumers of wildlife. We may not realize it but there's probably something in your home or something you own that came from wildlife.
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If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.
