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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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
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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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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
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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.'
