"If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?"

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Source : Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.70, Vintage

Shin Kyung-sook

“I reeled my head back, and with violent, uncontrollable contortions, I launched a spray of yellow, soupy duckfoot vomit into the air ... I (didn't see) where my regurgitated lunch had ended up after it'd been blasted from my throat. I booked it out of the now-befouled Chang'an Theater as fast as possible. (My guide) found me fifteen minutes later trying to look as casual as it is possible for a six-foot-two curly-haired white guy to look in a Beijing theater.”
“After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope. My collaboration as a programmer and arranger with Graeme Revell exposed me for the first time to the full spectrum of film music, including the hectic demands of orchestral scoring and the power politics surrounding the finalization of any score for a major motion picture in Hollywood.”
“Childhoodâ€™s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.”
“Anger is a good motivator.”
“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”
“There are those special projects that don't ever feel like work but just a blessing to be a part of, and 'Revolution' is one of those projects.”
“The shortest horror story: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
“One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.”

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