Aileen Lee Quotes
You have to get under the hood and spend some quality time with someone to understand what they're really good at.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
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Broadway is amazing because you're performing for such an intimate group of people. You're living in the moment and whatever happens happens, and you go on. You can't say cut and redo it, you have to be on the whole time.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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The Internet is too transformative for incumbents to not want to try to stifle or curb it - incumbents in the sense of multinational corporations, governments, take your pick.
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You have to get under the hood and spend some quality time with someone to understand what they're really good at.
