B. D. Wong Quotes
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.
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If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad or something, it will take me about a day. But I have a specific way of writing: I just listen to the beat. I think about what I'm going to write over the beat.
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To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.
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I shall do everything it becomes me to do.
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Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
