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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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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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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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Nobody needs to be taken to Hell to experience it. We just grow despair inside the soul until it becomes a world in and around a human.
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When I first came back from Iraq, I of course found myself thinking a lot about it. Not just my experiences, but those of people I talked to, friends, and colleagues.
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Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.
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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.
