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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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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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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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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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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I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.
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But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.
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By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
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I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.
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Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.
