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David Henry Hwang Quotes

We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.

David Henry Hwang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: August 11, 1957

Topics

Failure Experience Long You Career

We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

Life Education Opportunity Feel You

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Power Thought Choice Liberty Agent

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

Single Point System Act Market Much

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

Complex Abstraction Whole Object

They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.

Community People Week Know Right

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

Film Get Only Exceptional Sweden

To work with Miss Oprah has been amazing. To have her in my corner and inspire me and uplift me has been amazing.

Work Amazing Me Inspire Corner Her

My brain cells are dying in their trillions.

Brain Dying Cells Brain Cells

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

Music Myself Me Wait Better Acting

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

Jonathan Winters

Business Art School War Painting

They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it.

Dust Cattle Feed Cows Knows FDA

You can't have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context.

Value You Bad Need Context Things

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