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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You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.
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I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
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The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
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My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
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As I tell young people in workshops, 'It's your country. If you came here on the bottom of a slave ship, if your people came here seeking political freedom – however your folks got here – it belongs to you just as much as it belongs to anyone, so claim it. It's your birthright. America belongs to every person who is here.'
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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.
