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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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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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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We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.
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People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.
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The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.
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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.
