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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Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you’re fighting for.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited for me at every hotel, took me to every signing, brought me back, opened car doors for me. They were great. I was great. It was a wonderful tour.
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It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.
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I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
