Andrew Lau Quotes
I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.

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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.
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I'm not as aware of categories in music as some people are. To me it's just music. I'm interested in all kinds of music.
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Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.
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Steven Spielberg name is synonymous with Hollywood. You sometimes meet people who revel in their own mythology, and he doesn't feel like that, at all. He's very approachable, accessible and sweet. Even if he wasn't, I'd have to say that because the man runs everything.
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Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.
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I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.