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.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
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.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
Kat Graham -
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.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
Karen DeCrow -
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
Randy Newman
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia -
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
Randy Newman -
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Camille Claudel -
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
Iain Glen -
We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
Valerie Harper
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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.
Fiona Shaw -
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.
Patrick Marber -
You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
Beanie Sigel -
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.
Yoko Ono -
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.
Jack O'Connell -
I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
Bill Walsh -
I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
Van Morrison -
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
Nadine Gordimer -
I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
Ang Lee