Benedict Wong Quotes

I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

Benedict Wong

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• I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Walking
  • Dead
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• I think we respond well when we do something well.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
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• Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

  

  Dan Lipinski
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• That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
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• 'A Tale of Two Gardens'

  

  Octavio Paz

• The idea that in order to get clear about the meaning of a general term one had to find the common element in all its applications has shackled philosophical investigation; for it has not only led to no result, but also made the philosopher dismiss as irrelevant the concrete cases, which alone could have helped him understand the usage of the general term.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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• I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree.

  

  Kevin Barry

• Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.

  

  Joel Salatin
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• After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

  

  Mary Martin

• How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Criticism

• The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Great

• James Franco has turned his life into a real art project. In my opinion, that's the way to live.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Life
  • Live
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• The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
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• Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

  

  Neal Stephenson
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• I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Nice
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• Working with Babyface was legendary.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign

• I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
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• Well, I like shopping.

  

  Lianne La Havas
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• There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Make
  • Charm
  • Forbidden

• In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Important
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• My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Together

• I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

  

  Benedict Wong
  • Grandson