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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I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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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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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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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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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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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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In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say you are. You have to earn it and re-earn it and re-evaluate it from time to time.
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I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
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The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
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And if it is true that we acquired our knowledge before our birth, and lost it at the moment of birth, but afterward, by the exercise of our senses upon sensible objects, recover the knowledge which we had once before, I suppose that what we call learning will be the recovery of our own knowledge . . . PLATO
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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
