Ang Lee Quotes
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
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My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
