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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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.
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If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
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Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.
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American film isn't just film and glamor and fame and the lives of people who are fortunate financially. Those aren't the only stories in this vast nation. That's my mandate.
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We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
