Ang Lee Quotes
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
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There are new studies showing that young men and men with more progressive views of what a father should be - which is not just a helper and fun parent, but actually a partner - are beginning to feel more work-life conflict than mothers are. They're trying to do what women have been doing for 30 years, and they're having a very stressful time of it - a harder time at work because we still expect men to be on 24-7, working 40 years straight.
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It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.
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A child's first teacher is its mother.
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It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!
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I was with someone at 19, and I was married at 23, and I didn't want kids when I was in my 20s.
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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
