Ang Lee Quotes

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Ang Lee

• Life
• Trying
• Money
• Son
• Lowest
• Diapers

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• I read part of it all the way through.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Way
  • Funny
  • Through

• You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Think
  • Yourself

• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Children
  • Family
  • Free

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Character
  • You
  • Look

• I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Magic

• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Question
  • Tennis
  • Lose

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• My schedule is so crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Crazy
  • Schedule

• The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Great
  • You
  • Year

• I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • She
  • Mother
  • Food

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Never
  • Take

• I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Important
  • Family
  • Giving

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Doing

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.

  

  Gene Krupa

• Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • War
  • World War II

• I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Have Fun

• 'Have you come, then, to rescue me?'He laughed and said, 'from what, 'Colleen'?' You dried and dressed most willingly.You corseted, and caught the dread diseaseby which one comes to know such peace.'

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Peace

• At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Money
  • Age
  • Father

• When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Money