Ang Lee Quotes
If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone
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A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing … You come to a point where you have sung, more or less … your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. You know, up until that point, I hadn't had a life. I'd been searching, been on the road.
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Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.
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Missouri State is a great team. We now know how the Missouri Valley Conference is underrated and probably Creighton and Missouri State should be in (the NCAA Tournament).
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If Occupy Wall Street was actually a march, and people from all around the country could collect and march toward Washington, D.C., as part of this massive movement of people . . . I think that kind of pressure is much more powerful than a sit-in that seems to be a little unorganized.
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
