Park Chan-wook Quotes
If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
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I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
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'It’s a nitwit idea.''Yes, sir.''Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.'
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Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
