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Alan Mak Quotes

I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: chinese
Birth: January 1, 1968

Topics

Think Hong Kong I Think Influenced

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.

Strength Talent People World Enough

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Me Feel Been Thrown Incompetent

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

Eating You Table Anything Chinese

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Greatness Recognition Order Consent

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

Stephen Hawking

Good Intelligence Design Improve

We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.

Chance Trying Summer Will Same Own

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

Great House Comfort Bed Over Line

Restaurants serve supersize portions to make you feel you're getting your money's worth.

Money Feel Worth You Serve Your

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Milton Friedman

Friend Freedom Vision I Am Liberty

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.

I Am People Me Ask Up Seen

Everything I do creatively is never for money.

Money Never Everything Creatively

I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person.

Man Me Ambition Think Driving Enjoy

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