Ang Lee Quotes
I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
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Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.
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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
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People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.
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I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.
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I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
