David Tang Quotes
I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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I have too many ideas for a lifetime.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.
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At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.
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Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.
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My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.
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A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion and wordless experience. But writing is special in the way at allows us to temporarily enter another person's world, to step outside the boundaries of our own time and space.
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I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
