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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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 can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
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I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
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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.'
