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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I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.
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A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read.
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The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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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.
