Ang Lee Quotes
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.
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I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.
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Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys; you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well.
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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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Unfortunately it has become clear that Paul Martin and his team are not cut from the same cloth as Lester Pearson or Pierre Trudeau. And so, most Canadians think it's time for a change.
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In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
