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These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends. ↗

— Ang Lee

#chinese #culture #days #familiar #friends

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member. ↗

— Ang Lee

#days #earlier #family #family member #felt

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. ↗

— Ang Lee

#asia #cold #cold war #course #extension

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write. ↗

— Ang Lee

#had #i #me #nobody #out

When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it. ↗

— Ang Lee

#down #get #i #i am #immersed

You become the movie you are making. ↗

— Ang Lee

#making #movie #you

I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#george #george bush #i #mr #nader

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#america #budget #class #clear #designed

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards. ↗

— Bill Lee

#baseball #gave #mickey #mickey mouse #money

The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything. ↗

— Bill Lee

#ago #asked #believed #day #everything