Chung Mong-joon Quotes
I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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On religion I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.
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I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.
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I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up.
