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Kim Jee-woon Quotes

I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: south korean
Birth: July 6, 1964

Topics

I Am Person Nervous Average Being

The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.

Failure Fear Power Losing Win Think

When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that.

Life Father Son Day Me Born

The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to improving the well-being of most men and women is the growing socioeconomic inequality within each sex.

Stephanie Coontz

Women Opportunity Men Equality Sex

I fall to pieces when I am hurt, but when it comes to my children, I am a pillar of strength, applying balm and bandages and dressing up their wounds.

Strength Children I Am Hurt Fall Up

Truly, what the Secret Service did for us is that they saved my dad's life twice.

Life Service Secret Twice Us Did

We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me.

Great Me Believe Sex Brilliant She

The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it.

Me Long Adapt Hollywood Little Fact

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

Future Face Present More Human Only

I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.

Age You Early Down Go Know

I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.

Life My Life Ice Want Cube Spend

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Leadership Leader Children Football

I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.

Christian Louboutin

Growing Up Growing Know Up Vogue

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