B. D. Wong Quotes
I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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A woman can never have enough shoes.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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We can learn from everybody, man.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.
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Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.
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Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.
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I don't know why people feel popular actors avoid doing mytho shows. Aren't they also doing good? Sometimes such shows give you more fame.
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I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
