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 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 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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The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.
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You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
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All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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An extension of Planck's ideas, due to Prof. Niels Bohr of Copenhagen, went on to suggest that... the ultimate particles of matter would be seen to move not like railway trains running smoothly on tracks, but like kangaroos hopping about in a field.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.
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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.
