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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Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.
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In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'
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There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
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Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.
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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.
