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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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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Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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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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Our choice of partners is perhaps the clearest single statement of our choice of values. Therefore, when we blame our partner for anything, we should really be confronting ourselves. Not as in 'Yes, I made a bad choice,' but as in 'How does this choice reflect my values?'
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'I feel healthy! I feel happy I feel terrific
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All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
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Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
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The sport of shooting is my life.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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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.
