Eddie Huang Quotes
I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
-
Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
-
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
-
I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
-
I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
-
For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
-
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
-
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
-
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
-
It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
-
My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
-
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
-
Lipgloss is my calling!
-
In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
-
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
-
I take my work seriously.
-
Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
-
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
-
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
-
Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.
-
I saw 'Sleeping Beauty' when I was, like, 6 years old at the Mercury Theatre. Then, when I came to Disney, I was in the company of these wonderful artists. People like Glen Keane, like Mark Henn, who were brilliant animators who could really bring these things to life.
-
As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.
-
Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.
-
I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
