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 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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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
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I'm not a girl who sits home and knits, you know.
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Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
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It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
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Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
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The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.
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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.
