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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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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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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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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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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Sic quisque pavendodat vires famae, nulloque auctore malorumquae finxere timent.
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.
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A riot is the language of the unheard.
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Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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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.
