Kim Jee-woon Quotes
Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
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I still work weekends because I like it; I enjoy it. I just don't care.
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When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
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The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars,' recently published by Penguin, was voted Time Magazine's book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.
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A bank-issued digital asset can only really efficiently settle between the banks who issued it. I strongly believe banks need an independent digital asset to enable truly efficient settlement, and we believe XRP is best positioned for that role.
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I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.
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I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.
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Then it came across the radio: Bravo Company had found one other survivor from our 2nd Platoon. He had been badly wounded in the legs and had propped himself up against a tree. He had been burned by napalm, waiting in the night, and some North Vietnamese had put a pistol to his eye and pulled the trigger. Shot him in the eye, blinded him, but he was still alive! I saw him being brought in on a stretcher, smoking a cigarette, all fucked up.
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I don't think I could ever really be with a woman because that's a lot of... Yeah, there's a lot of estrogen and I'm a lot to deal with when it's that time of the month, so I can't imagine it times two.
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Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
