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Time Quotes by David Henry Hwang

8 Time quotes by David Henry Hwang

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David Henry Hwang’s playwright eye captures time in a handful of sharp lines. Though only eight pieces, they reveal how he weaves urgency and patience into his storytelling, offering a quick but thoughtful glimpse into his view of the clock’s pull.

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Time flies when you’re being stupid.

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There's something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. At the same time, we live in an America…

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My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or…

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Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother,…

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I'm interested in internationalism. It's the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn't sufficient any more. It's about time we…

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I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning…

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For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities to…

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We are all prisoners of our time and place.

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My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally…

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“And you wonder, what's wrong with me? Will anyone beautiful want me?”

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As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that…

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Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

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Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way…

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My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping…

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. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also…

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Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For me, it's…

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Time flies when you’re being stupid.

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If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera,…

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Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

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There's something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. At the same time, we live in an America where capitalists…

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