Benedict Wong Quotes
It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.Benedict Wong
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
Lady Gaga -
I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
Zara Larsson -
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain -
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss -
I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
Iggy Pop -
When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
Orlando Cepeda
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
Qandeel Baloch -
A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
T. E. Lawrence -
I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
Daisy Ridley -
I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
Gabriel Mann -
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
Quavo Migos
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
Oliver St. John -
There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
Zubin Mehta -
People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
Gary Oldman -
Latinos finally have a genre of music that represents them, and they're supporting reggaeton in such huge numbers that people can't help but notice there's a revolution going on.
Fat Joe -
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
Barry White -
We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
K. D. Lang
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I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.
Chadwick Boseman -
My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
Samuel Barnett -
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.
Daniel H. Wilson -
When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
Namie Amuro -
It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
Euripides -
It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
Benedict Wong