Andrew Lau Quotes
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I love cycling.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I love working with women.
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The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
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When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it.
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The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature; . . .
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.
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You don't want a movie to have a lot of awards and no audience.
