Kevin Kwan Quotes
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Such huge money has been made in China - it can be hundreds of millions in a year - and there's a need to validate it by showing what they can buy and how much of it.
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I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
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Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie husbands with children in ads, or they're IT geeks.
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One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.
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Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.
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I've lived in New York City for over twenty years now, and every single day is like a new adventure. At this point, there are many places I'd love to visit, but I can't imagine living anywhere else on the planet.
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It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby sharks. It's not normal to go to someone's garage and see a private plane.
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Even if they're not Asian or super rich... everyone has a nagging mother. Everyone has that obnoxious uncle, or that cousin who's a bit too snobby.
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I have pictures of my grandmother from the 1920s and '30s in avant-garde dresses that looked like they could have come from the House of Worth or Lucien Lelong. She would never say if they were couture, but I do recall her telling me, 'All my clothes and shoes came from Paris.'
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I come from an old establishment family from Singapore.
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Warner Bros. is just this amazing historic studio that does great movies.
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There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it.
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It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.
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I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.