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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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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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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We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
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I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.
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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
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The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.
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Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to 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.
