Patrick Wang Quotes
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.Patrick Wang
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria -
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman -
Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
Campbell Scott -
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
Ice T
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
Rabindranath Maharaj -
There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
Patricia Clarkson -
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco -
I started out doing musicals.
Zooey Deschanel -
People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
Gary Ross -
When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.
Rani Mukerji
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Gavin Newsom -
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
Gary Johnson -
Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
Taya Kyle
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.
Iggy Pop -
The message I really want to get out there is that I'm someone who works hard, gets the most out of his talent, off the course has a great family life.
Luke Donald -
I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.
John Lanchester -
Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
Calvin Harris -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang