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I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

~David Henry Hwang

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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 went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.

~David Henry Hwang

Topics: About Amazingly Bad Before Came Clash Culture Encouraged Finally First Had He Kept Like Maria Material Me Out People Plays Promise Sam Senior Senior Year Subconscious Suddenly Summer Teacher Thought Were Who Working Workshop Write Year

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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 there's honor in being a good artist, and there's honor in being a good 'craftsperson.'

~David Henry Hwang

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There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

~David Henry Hwang

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I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't 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 Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

~David Henry Hwang

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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 examine how we interact with the rest of the world we live in.

~David Henry Hwang

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You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

~David Henry Hwang

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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 oppose any government interference with free markets, while in China you have a very controlled, state-planned market where economic growth is better than ours.

~David Henry Hwang

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You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.

~David Henry Hwang

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Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.

~David Henry Hwang

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: August 11th, 1957

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