Benedict Wong Quotes
In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.
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I love working the legislative process.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.
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Ask me trivia on 'Sex and the City,' and I will know it. I rewatch it every year. Samantha? Charlotte? Those are my girls.
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Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you. (p. 27)
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In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.
