Ang Lee Quotes
I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
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People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.
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Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.
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I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.
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In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.
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A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.
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There are a lot of similarities to that situation. I remember sitting on the plane with Bob Boone, and he said, 'Sometimes when you let the air out of a balloon, it's hard to pump it up again.' That's how we felt.
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Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
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I don't mind standing up for what I believe in.
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People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.
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There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.
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I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
