B. D. Wong Quotes
Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
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I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
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It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
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Q: If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? A: Why do men go to zoos?
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I am merely a seeker after knowledge, taking the world for my province, for it seems all knowledge is interrelated, and each science is dependent to some extent on the others. We study the stars that we may know more about our earth, and herbs that we may know medicine better.
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My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments.
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
