Andrew Lau Quotes
Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
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I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
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I'm known for my handwritten notes.
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Vampires are super sexy.
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When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul.
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I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.
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Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.
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Everything in politics is so stage-managed.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'
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Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.
