Ang Lee Quotes
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.
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When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
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There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.
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When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.
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I think people are universal.
