Daniel Wu Quotes
For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.
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The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
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Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.
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I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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'A liar sees lies,' said Taleswapper. 'Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.'
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People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.
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The channels of human mental development... are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits.
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He began with an exordium, containing an apology for his resignation of the office of Advocate-General in the Court of Admiralty; and for his appearance in that cause, in opposition to the Crown, and in favor of the town of Boston, and the merchants of Boston and Salem.
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I could have been somebody in this world wasn’t for him.
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Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
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Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
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Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
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Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He knew defeating Russia couldn't be accomplished without laying the groundwork.
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There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.
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For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.
