Ang Lee Quotes
Depending on the budget [whether to use 3D on future movies]. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.
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Unfortunately, in this country the propaganda for entering the Common Market has been largely based on defeatism. We are told that unless we do it we are going to have a terrible time. That is no way to go into a negotiation. You ought to go into a negotiation on the basis that they have need of you, not just you of them.
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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Depending on the budget [whether to use 3D on future movies]. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film.
