Ang Lee Quotes
Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino.' And I thought, 'Well, no art department came up with this; this is Quentin's writing.'
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The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.
