Ang Lee Quotes
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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Love is a state of being.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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We in the West should stand by our core principles.
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If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.
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The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prime minister will have profound repercussions for Japan and East Asia. Most western commentary during the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi has been concerned with the extent to which Japan has allowed a freer rein to market forces.
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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
