Ang Lee Quotes
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
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I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.
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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
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Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.
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If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.
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First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
