Andrew Lau Quotes
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
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We all take Mother's Day seriously and then it's like a month later, a bunch of kids get together and say, "I guess we should do this for the old man, too." Father Day's is weird. It's like celebrating Darth Vader's birthday. It's odd I think. Even the gifts we give dads. Like neckties, which are just like a silk noose. Or books. Would you ever want someone from another generation to give you a book?
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Nobody has any security in loving me.
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I was a manicurist in another life.
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We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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I don't care about the critics.
