Top 1019 Quotes & Sayings by South Korean Authors - Page 14

New Orleans has a lot of good food.

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

When I made up my mind for Manchester, I felt I had betrayed Hiddink. I knew he wanted me to go to Chelsea, so I found it difficult.

When I was younger, I liked guys who had a good personality and decent looks.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

I get pimples sometimes, and it's very stressful.

I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.

My cousin knew a manager in the model agency, He offered me a shoot for a Korean brand called Kai-aakmann, and it was a good pay. I was working at a shop selling surfing items in Busan, but I quit the job and came to Seoul for a better future.

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate with political opponents even after they win an election.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

I think I may have become a grown man.

We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.

I, at times, was disappointed when my songs were neglected by executive producer Park Jin-young, but learned a lot in the journey finding out what would appeal to a wider audience.

For many people, the age of 20 is when they first reach adulthood, and it's a time full of ideals and dreams. But when I was 20, a lot of misfortune came along. I spent a year in the hospital and couldn't move, and I was forced to think a lot.

I tend to pick projects that give me a sense of freshness. So my filmography, especially after hitting my 30s, has become a lot more diverse.

It's not hard to get into a teen's head, because it's all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven't had your heart broken before, you don't know that you'll be able to get back up again.

Quite many people have ugly hands, and I thought I should not feel ashamed about it.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

If you have luck on your side and are strong mentally, you can succeed in Europe.

In 'Vagabond,' I'm acting like a gangster; it's very tough. I have to use my body for action scenes, and there is nothing gentlemanly about this character at all.

I feel proud to be a member of SHINee. It is a great team with a unique identity.

Getting kicked out of Cube has tarnished my reputation and disgraced myself.

If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

I will try and make peace between North and South Korea.

I never really felt 100 percent me while singing in those Jimin years. But I don't regret it, because I think that it was the only time that I can sing those songs, when I was in my early 10s and teens.

Those who want to look more youthful should live life with a young heart.

We want to keep doing our own music and show our own colors.

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

I was always worried about things but I focused on finding happiness.

All Korean food is not just one thing.

I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.

I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.

I think I get inspiration from places where I see nature.

What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.

I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training.

I don't think my personality will change. No matter how much time passes or how old I get, I'd like to be considered a playful person to everyone.

Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

I will never forget when we won No. 1 on a TV music show for 'Cheer Up.' It was one of our group goals. We put in a lot of hard work in that song, and felt accomplished and were very moved.

The most important parts of fashion to me are confidence and expressing who I am.

I 'follow' some of my fans' social network accounts and take a look at photos and video clips uploaded by them every day. Sometime I ask them to post more adorable and beautiful images of me.

He's always with me; I'm always asking. He can be my father, or he can be my coach, or he can be an ex-player. I can ask him so many things. He teaches me a lot, and I'm really thankful.

I like lots of Korean music that most people have probably never heard of. I also enjoy hip hop.

I love figure skating. It's what I'm good at.

I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.

We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.

I hope K-dramas can make inroads into more Asian countries.

I don't need to have someone tell me what I'm going to be entertained by.

I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well.

When you receive love, you become more beautiful because of the confidence it gives you.

Seoul has many good tourism resources, including nature, history and people. To take advantage of these, we have to make efforts, to preserve nature, restore historic properties and support the nation's dynamic culture and art.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and came to South Korea.

I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.

Even myself, I believe that as an artist I should pursue more independent activities. If more artists believe in this and are active about it, they will be able to accomplish more on their own, without the influence of entertainment labels.

'Spring Day' - I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.

I think if Elon Musk asked me to go to Mars as a musician, to sing for people, I think I might just do that. A return ticket would be a nice incentive, though.

I'm sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn't able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.