"I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country."

-- Ang Lee

#Country Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Guy Quotes

“By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.”
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
“What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”
“I would like to do something a little bit more edgy.”
“Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste”
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
“The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.”
“I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.”

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