Ang Lee Quotes
I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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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 lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.
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You'll see this term in your book, if you've read the book. Don't comment.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.
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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
