Basically Quote by David Henry Hwang Download Open image “I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.” — David Henry Hwang ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Basically Bilingual Chinese College Studied
Ive studied Chinese in college, but basically, Im not bilingual. — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda… — Eric Nam Copy Share Image
Somehow you get past languages. I don't speak Mandarin. I don't speak fluent Italian. I don't speak German. But it's amazing how when you… — B. J. Armstrong Copy Share Image
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share
I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I think that… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
“And you wonder, what's wrong with me? Will anyone beautiful want me?” — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
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 we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America. — David Henry Hwang Copy Share
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share
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 a way to jump-start the engine. For example, some people use the technique of basing a character on a friend. They start writing with his or her voice, then at a certain point, the character takes… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share
When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I… — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a… — Gene Ween Copy Share Image
My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
It would be amazing if we were just basically judged on the merits of what we do, but we're not. That's not part of… — Aspen Ladd Copy Share Image
In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity.… — Golan Levin Copy Share Image
Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
