David Henry Hwang Quotes
We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
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For the first time in long time, I can say I love what I do. I can't say that every day is easy or fun, but there are few greater thrills in life than hurling yourself down an iced-over water slide in a carbon fiber bathtub.
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The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
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We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so.
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We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
