Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (Michelle Yeoh) Quotes
That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.
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Being evil is easy.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.
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The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
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Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.
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Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
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That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.
