Andrew Lau Quotes
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers.
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The way I look at music, what I'm interested in is not necessarily creativity - in many ways I think creativity is overrated, actually. What I think is important is authenticity. I want to hear music that has the resonance of the people. I want to hear music that is an amplification of them. Because then, I can experience the people. But because the music has become so institutionalized, everyone is learning and regurgitating the same material in the same way.
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In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.
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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'
