Lee Hyeon-seo Quotes
I'm not sure if my story will become a movie. Some of my western friends sent my story to people they know in the movie industry. But one consistent response was there aren't any main western characters in my story, so it's unlikely to be made into a movie in English.
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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 think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
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James Branch Cabell made this book so that he who wills may read the story of mans eternally unsatisfied hunger in search of beauty. Ettarre stays inaccessible always and her lovliness is his to look on only in his dreams. All men she must evade at the last and many ar the ways of her elusion.
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This one fact alone, Rachmael reflected, should have frightened the rational citizen. But-The people did not know. The media had not reported it.
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It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others.
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I'm not sure if my story will become a movie. Some of my western friends sent my story to people they know in the movie industry. But one consistent response was there aren't any main western characters in my story, so it's unlikely to be made into a movie in English.
