Ang Lee Quotes
Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
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If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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Making films is like making stuff together as kids.
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Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
