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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The surface is all you get of 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 health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.
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Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.
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'Bonfire' was kicking around for a very long time. It was an idea I wanted to explore for a television show. Then I was given this weird gift of time when 'Jessica Jones' finished season one. I got really organized and just kind of banged it out, but it took a long time. It took two years to even have a first draft.
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My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.
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We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
