David Henry Hwang Quotes
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It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.
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As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
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All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
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I think there will always be need of trusted voices in the investment community, but what the ICO markets are showing is that the world has incredible demand for future-looking projects!
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Fame creeps up on you.
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What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.
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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
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I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
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Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.
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With me, what you see is what you get.
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It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
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I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.
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I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.
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You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.
