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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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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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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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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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 tend not to dwell on drama.
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Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.
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I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.
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I went to one doctor who told me I wasn't exercising enough. I was so exhausted, I couldn't raise my arm. When this doctor called it psychosomatic, I was enraged. To think the constant sore throat and swollen glands were all in my head was infuriating.
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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.
