Kim Jee-woon Quotes
After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because 'A Tale of Two Sisters' was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn't interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.
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I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.
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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.
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We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.
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After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because 'A Tale of Two Sisters' was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn't interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion.
