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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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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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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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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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 love to read, and I've always loved to write.
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The word 'God,' so 'capitalised' (as we Americans say), is the definable proper name, signifying Ens necessarium; in my belief Really creator of all three Universes of Experience.
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As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.
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Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll.
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
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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.
