Alan Mak Quotes
I really have to say 'thank you' to our fans, because I think it's difficult for European viewers to find and watch Asian movies, and I hope you enjoy our films.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
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Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
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They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
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We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.
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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
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I really have to say 'thank you' to our fans, because I think it's difficult for European viewers to find and watch Asian movies, and I hope you enjoy our films.
