Dat Nguyen Quotes
Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.
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I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.
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The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
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The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
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Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.
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Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.
