David Henry Hwang Quotes
I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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I have to admit that I was never into the boy band craze of the late '90s and the early aughts. I was into more adult things like Ricky Martin. For reals.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.
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In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.
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I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.
