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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I quite like being who I am.
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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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So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.
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Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.
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Dance is the only thing that makes me feel good.
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We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
