Ang Lee Quotes

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

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• It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Working

• In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • House
  • Me
  • Kind

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • Question
  • Wife

• Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Always
  • Changing

• I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Jazz

• When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • World
  • Movie
  • You

• Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Human
  • Fate
  • Circumstances

• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Luxury

• Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Thought

• The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Crisis
  • Humanitarian
  • Syrian

• Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Conflict

• It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Terrorism

• People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Follow
  • Super

• I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

  

  Joan Crawford
  • Sex

• Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Up
  • Control

• If you'd have asked me that question, 9 months ago, well, I would have been able to say, to come to America, to have a number one hit in America, and to play Carnegie Hall, to play the Palladium, to play in front of the Queen, and all that. ... The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.

  

  George Harrison The Beatles
  • Done
  • America
  • Question

• I have always had confidence in my ability; I knew I'd get a chance coming here. That's one of the main reasons why I signed for Tottenham.

  

  Dele Alli
  • Why
  • Confidence

• Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Writing
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  • Directors