B. D. Wong Quotes
Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'B. D. Wong
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
Zac Brown Band -
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Zig Ziglar -
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
Gary Oldman -
The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
Washed Out -
Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
Ted Nugent -
I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
M. J. Rose
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington -
I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
Zac Goldsmith -
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown -
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
Victor Mitchell -
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
Randeep Hooda -
In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
Dan Fogler -
I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
Rachel Sklar -
I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
Zooey Deschanel -
When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
Katey Sagal -
It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
Natalie Cole
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We have a long way to go in the world in all industries. If I'm in the situation where I have equal experience to the other actor and my role is just as significant, there is no reason why I should be paid less. It's not really part of my world anymore, because I just won't accept it.
Jessica Chastain -
Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.
Martin Jacques -
I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
Nate Parker -
To be a series regular for two seasons taught me so much about what it takes to be on a TV schedule and work those kind of hours and just work in front of a camera in general.
Megan Hilty -
Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
Ed Wood -
Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
B. D. Wong