Ang Lee Quotes
Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.
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During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.
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Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.
