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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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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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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I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.
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You may disagree with some changes in this bill, just as some of our members disagree with other details, ... But all Americans will see this bill as a victory for common sense, and I urge you to support it.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
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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.
