"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

-- Ang Lee

#Population Quotes #World Quotes #West Quotes

“Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.”
“My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow”
“If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid”
“The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...”
“Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.”
“The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.”
“There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.”
“In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?”

Source : "Joan Halifax, Roshi – Letting Go, Letting in Light: Halifax Talks about Her Life & Groundbreaking Book, Being with Dying". Interview with Joy Stocke, www.wildriverreview.com.

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