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"Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it."

"Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along."

"If you want to know the value of a day, ask someone who could not find food to eat or water to drink for a whole day when he is hungry."

"Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!"

"Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful."

"Fantasizing about the future is not wrong until and unless you are not missing the beauty of the present!"

"When we don't see the value of a thing, we don't put the protective edge."

"I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases....."

"Always celebrate people for who they are."

"You cannot truly enjoy a flower until you can see her inner beauty and feel her purpose of life."
Explore more quotes by Ang Lee

"To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late."

"Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience."

"Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself."

"I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along."

"In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them."

"Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun."

"When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left."

"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."
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