Kim Jee-woon Quotes
I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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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.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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I never had any idea of going into movies.
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I am thrilled to be modelling the debut collection of Always Aliza. Janet Reger was such an iconic brand throughout my modelling career, and it feels great to now be modelling her daughter's range for JD Williams almost forty years on.
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There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.
