Ang Lee Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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For me, family has always come first.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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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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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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It's a common issue that you see out there, where some families aren't as accepting of what people choose to be in their life.
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I rarely assess live shows after I play them.
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I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
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There's a lot of pressure on a film set that's more immediate than the pressure in the theater where you're nervous about what's going to happen next week.
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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
