An Wang Quotes
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old.
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My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.
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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
