David Henry Hwang Quotes
You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
David Henry Hwang
Quotes to Explore
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
Olga Kurylenko
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
Hamza Yusuf
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
Ed Pastor
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
Adam Peaty
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
M.I.A.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
Ted Cruz
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
Rachel Weisz
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
Madeleine Stowe
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
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At the end of the day, we're just trying to be honest and, hopefully, get more females on the radio.
Taylor Dye
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All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.
Billy Crystal
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I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
Atom Egoyan
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I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'
Jeff Lemire
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You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
David Henry Hwang
