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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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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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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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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Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere of love and affection, as it hardens him and gives him a taste of what he is going to run into later in life.
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Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.
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Fortune reigns in gifts 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.
