Andrew Lau Quotes

I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.

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• I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Food

• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • American
  • President

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Food
  • Like
  • Wonderful

• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Player
  • Enough

• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Great
  • Never
  • Secrets

• I came up with a story and I wrote it.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Story
  • Wrote

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Kids
  • You
  • Allergic

• I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Long
  • Challenge

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Well
  • Arts
  • Thrive

• Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Action

• I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Lies

• The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Mind
  • Animal
  • Special

• If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.

  

  Joel Coen
  • Work
  • Different

• What's central about numbers for us as adults is that we can apply a number like 7 to a diverse number of things. We can say that there are seven dots but also that a horn honks seven times. Although these are different in their sensory qualities, the numbers are the same.

  

  Elizabeth Spelke
  • Different
  • Adults
  • Qualities

• I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.

  

  Andrew Lau
  • Different