Ang Lee Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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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.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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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.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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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.
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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.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.
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I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.
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A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
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Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
