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Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
Ang Lee
Gay
Community
Think
Gay Community
Everyone
Alike
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
Ang Lee
You
Big
Reading
Books
Way
Find
Had
Excitement
Comic
Comic Books
Get
Big Screen
Screen
Translating
Americans are hidden dragons to me.
Ang Lee
Me
Hidden
American
Dragons
In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
Ang Lee
You
Woman
Culture
Yourself
Overwhelming
Shoes
Situation
Put
Know
Tradition
I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.
Ang Lee
Macho
Gibson
Sort
Person
I'm quite lazy.
Ang Lee
Lazy
Quite
I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.
Anna May Wong
Old
Hong Kong
Anna
Come
Kong
May
Hollywood
Hollywood Star
Star
Now
I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
Bai Ling
Time
Nature
You
Own
Live
Must
Follow
Born
Push
Like
Also
Well
Accept
Times
Just
Wherever
Cannot
Rhythm
Places
I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there.
Bai Ling
Character
You
Sometimes
Wake Up
Research
Difficult
Think
Hurrying
Fond
More
Know
Learn
Because
Always
Doing
Wake
Up
Shooting
Much
Really
Early
Here
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
Bai Ling
Life
Nature
Me
Respect
Happy
Goals
Wind
Whatever
Embrace
Through
Feel
Like
Very
Person
Blow
Happens
Much
Plans
Many
I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
Bai Ling
Good
Me
You
People
Sex
Considered
Sex Symbol
About
Something
Allowed
Come
Know
Talk
Because
Being
Where
Asia
Asked
Symbol
I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
Bai Ling
Buy
Gifts
Some
Guys
Like
Just
Expensive
Romantic
Things
Bring
Flowers
I think I'm like a free spirit.
Bai Ling
Free
Think
Spirit
Free Spirit
Like
Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.
Bai Ling
Favorite
Johnny
Johnny Depp
He
Takes
Because
Depp
Actor
Chances
I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.
Bai Ling
Best
Day
Win
Will
One Day
Actress
Oscar
I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.
Bai Ling
Hate
Shopping
Out
Run
Go
Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
Bai Ling
Me
Gift
Side
Sophisticated
Person
Want
Actress
Present
Basically
I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
Bai Ling
You
Signs
Follow
Blog
Update
Often
Which
Chinese
Even
I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
Bai Ling
Life
Me
Risks
Fate
Edge
Own
Duty
Think
Our
Somehow
Take
Mission
Always
Am
Walking
Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
Bai Ling
Soldier
Bit
Those
Somehow
Part
Leaders
Feel
Because
Odd
Tanks
Square
Little
Little Bit
Them
Uniform
Watching
Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
Bai Ling
Love
Beautiful
Joy
World
Compassion
Other
Would
Would-Be
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
More
Boundaries
Countries
Sisters
Much
Each
For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Art
Time
World
We Cannot
See
Most
Common
Cannot
Theme
Using
Search
Things
Only individual creativity can bring about real social development.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Creativity
About
Only
Individual
Development
Real
Social
Social Development
Bring
Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Myself
Liberate
Medium
Way
Gunpowder
Became
Using
Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Politics
Art
Sometimes
Political
Free
Become
Society
Tool
More
Open
Make
Climate
Political Climate
Should
Help
One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other reason is I was always looking for a visual language that goes beyond the boundary of nations, and so I found gunpowder.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Good
Language
Looking
Luck
Other
Good Luck
Visual
Gunpowder
Had
Environment
Boundary
Beyond
Always
Goes
Nations
Reason
Exposed
Chose
Found
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