Ang Lee Quotes
Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
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George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.
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None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing you have to do is see it in your mind's eye. You have to envision it. Imagine someone knitting a sweater or a scarf. They either have a pattern in front of them, or they see a pattern in their mind's eye. Then it's one stitch at a time. That's what shooting a chase is like.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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Honestly, I enjoy nothing more than two Republicans going after each other.
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I always like to serve the people some good soul music, and Christmas was just the cherry on top.
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Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
