David Henry Hwang Quotes
I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I think that there's honor in being a good artist, and there's honor in being a good 'craftsperson.'
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
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The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.
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I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.
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I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
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It's morning when I go to sleep In the distant dawn a church bell rings Another day is coming on A baby's born, an old man dies Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye I leave my soul and just move on And wish that I was there to sing this song
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I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I think that there's honor in being a good artist, and there's honor in being a good 'craftsperson.'
