Ang Lee Quotes
My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
Quotes to Explore
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.
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Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
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I've been in jail a couple times. I've been caught shoplifting.
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I talk to my parents a couple of times a week. I talk to my daughters every day.
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A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.
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My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
