William Hung (Hung Hing Cheong) Quotes
I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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I'm not really very ambitious.
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I can’t tell someone that their dreams are impossible.
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Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.
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I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.
