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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The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.
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Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'
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Whether or not I would be able to be an actor without the music I'm not sure, but I feel pretty lucky to do it.
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I've got a lot to do, and I hope that by the end of it all, people will say that Dee Snider was an entertainer, and he did his job well.
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I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark'... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet.
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I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.
