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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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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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 I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky
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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
