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.
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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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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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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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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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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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Almost all of "Julie" was shot on location in Carmel, which is a lovely resort town a little south of San Francisco. My co-star was Louis Jourdan, whom I liked very much. An amiable man, very gentle, very much interested in the people around him; we had a good rapport and I found talking to him a joy . . . We would take long walks on the beautiful Carmel beach, chatting by the hour.
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I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.
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My introduction to Woody Allen and to Ethan Coen was at the same time. On Broadway, I starred in a play called 'Relatively Speaking,' which was three one-act comedies, one of which was written by Ethan and one of which was by Woody.
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I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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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.
