Ang Lee Quotes
The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
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I write in a small office at home.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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My father is an amazing person.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.
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American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.
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There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.'
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We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.
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The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
