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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It's a sin to be tired.
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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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In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'
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The first step is you have to say that you can.
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I loved 'Paranormal Activity.' It was one of my favorites before. It was a tradition; my friends and I went every year.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.
