Wong Kar-wai Quotes

In most kung fu films, they want to create a hero who's always fighting a bad guy. In the story of Ip Man, he's not fighting physical opponents. He's fighting the ups and downs of his life.

Wong Kar-wai

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LifeHeroManStoryUps And Downs

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

Andy Garcia

WorkBetterYouWantSomethingThan

I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I'm not. It's like people reading their diaries in public. I don't want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent.

Maxine Peake

PeopleReadingFindActingCreate

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

Anita Loos

LifeFakeAmericanAmericaYear

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

John Thune

FutureBestFightI AmFeelAmerica

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

Amy Grant

LoveAmericanEasyHolidayWayReal

As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting.

Sue Johanson

FunHaving FunLongQuittingHaving

I didn't look up to only pop stars, but I did look up to Adele, Amy Winehouse, Grimes, Robyn, Joni Mitchell, Norah Jones, M.I.A., Coldplay, Keane, and more.

Sigrid

StarsLookMoreUpOnlyPop

On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.

Shinzo Abe

WomenHeartPainPeopleSuffering

I'm happy when the fans sing my name.

Mohamed Salah

HappyNameFansSing

I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.

Donald McKay

DailyTimeWordsBreakfastExercise

I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways.

Christopher Lloyd

KeyCreatingLuckyRightEverything

I have made a career out of my hobby, which is an incredibly fortunate position to be in, but you have to have the passion. Even today, I will go down to the studio and start singing for what I think is 10 minutes, and I look at the clock, and it's been two hours.

Colm Wilkinson

PassionTodaySingingStartThink

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