Stephen Chow Quotes

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

Stephen Chow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: June 22, 1962

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I do have the cheesiest of cheesy chat-up lines used on me.

Jesse Metcalfe

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I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.

John McAfee

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I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

Anna Netrebko

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Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

Stephen Malkmus

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People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography.

Roger Deakins

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My parents had met in high school and married right after my father came back from World War II. They honeymooned in Paris and returned to that city when my father, in college on the G.I. Bill, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.

Mary Gaitskill

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You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Joseph de Maistre

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Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Douglas Hyde

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Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.

Donna Brazile

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Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

Chris Gabrieli

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Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.

Clifford Geertz

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