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58 Oprah Winfrey Quotes To Empower, Delight, And Inspire
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To Inspire
1. “You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.”
2. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
3. “I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
4. "The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they make the best of everything."
6. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
7. “The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.”
8. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ”
9. “Don't worry about becoming successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”
10. “Trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”
11. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”
12. “With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."
13. “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”
14. "Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities."
15. "Everything happens for a reason, even when we are not wise enough to see it."
16. “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”
17. “You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.”
18. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
19. “Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
20. “Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it."
21. “Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.”
22. “Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.”
23. “You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
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To Empower
24. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”
25. “Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay.”
26. “Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
27. “Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”
28. “I was once afraid of people saying, 'Who does she think she is?' Now I have the courage to stand and say, 'This is who I am.'”
29. "Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to."
30. “Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.”
31. “All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.”
32. “As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.”
33. “True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.”
34. “Whatever you fear most has no power — it is your fear that has the power.”
35. “What I realized is, I don’t want to be married. Because I could not have the life that I created for myself…I knew that I couldn’t do it.”
36. “What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.”
37. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
38. "When there is no struggle, there is no strength."
39. “You get to know who you really are in a crisis.”
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To Delight
40. “Keep your heels, head and standards high.”
41. “I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”
42. “I have a special pair of poop shoes under my desk. Whenever I need to drop a deuce, I slip them on and scurry to the restroom, and no one ever knows it's me.”
43. “Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.”
44. “Here’s how I see your weight — it is your smoke detector. And we’re all burning up the best part of our lives.”
45. “Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.”
46. "It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways."
47. “I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.”
48. “I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.”
49. “When people show you who they are, believe them!”
50. “He who dies with the most toys is still dead.”
51. “I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.”
52. "When I didn't have friends, I had books.”
53. “All stress comes from resisting what is.”
54. “When you know better, you do better.”
55. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
56. “Love is a lesson worth learning.”
57. “Everybody looks at their poop.”
58. "I love bread."
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8 Incredible Photo Stories You Absolutely Can’t Miss
Here are the most interesting and powerful photo stories from across the web.
"The Photos That Captured a History-Making Couple" — Time
"At first glance, by today’s standards, these images don’t seem all that trailblazing or controversial. They’re images of a married couple engaging each other. However, these images from a series that ran in 1966 were undoubtedly important to the civil rights movement, a time when interracial marriage was still illegal in 18 US states, including their own. I keep coming back to the image of Richard and Mildred Loving sharing a kiss." —Laura Geiser, photo editor, BuzzFeed News
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"18 Photos Of Women’s Heads Being Shaved For Superstition, Celebration, Wigs, And God" — BuzzFeed
"How often do you see a product and stop to think about how it got to that store? It's known that a majority of hair used in human hair wigs come from Indian women, but I was unaware so much comes from a religious ceremony where women part with their hair on their head completely. In Allison Joyce's pictures of this enchanting ritual, these women appear at ease with themselves, so beautiful, strong and happy." —Sarah Kobos, photo editor, BuzzFeed
Allison Joyce / Getty Images
"Four Generations of Photographers, All Named Byrd" — New York Times
"In my home state of Texas, a family dynasty of photographers has been documenting the changing landscape of the American West since 1880. The Byrd William Family Photography Collection, which was recently acquired by the University of North Texas Libraries, is home to over 400,000 negatives and prints made by four generations of photographers. Here, the New York Times speaks with the last member of the family, Byrd Williams IV, and shares pictures from a collection best described as a national treasure." —Gabriel H. Sanchez, photo essay editor, BuzzFeed News
Byrd Williams III / University of North Texas Special Collections
"Toy Soldiers: the Next Generation of Patriots" — ABC News
"It feels like child soldiers are becoming more commonplace, more normalized. Sarah’s photos are great examination of the Russian version of ROTC, which combines nationalistic intent with an outlet for kids to learn weaponry and teamwork. The edit on ABC balances the focus between the militaristic implications and universal teen traits of friendship and boredom." —Kate Bubacz, senior photo editor, BuzzFeed News
Sarah Blesener
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17 Celebrity Instgrams You Need To See This Week
Jessica Biel backflips, two celebs dyed their hair bright red, and Madonna films Carpool Karaoke with James Corden.
Chrissy Teigen stood next to her magazine cover and waited for people to notice.
Jessica Biel did a backflip.
Anne Hathaway stole a centerpiece.
Skylar Astin and Ben Platt reunited on Broadway.
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22 Of The Most Powerful Photos Of This Week
28 year old Rupa has her hair shaven to donate to the Gods at the Thiruthani Murugan Temple in Thiruttani, India. Rupa donated her hair with the wish that her daughter's illness is cured. The process of shaving ones hair and donating it to the Gods is known as tonsuring. It is common for Hindu believers to tonsure their hair at a temple as a young child, and also to celebrate a wish coming true, such as the birth of a baby or the curing of an illness. The "temple hair", as it's known, is then auctioned off to a processing plant and then sold as pricey wigs and weaves in the US, Europe and Africa.
Allison Joyce / Getty Images
People attempt to climb a wall as part of a competition in the Bishara El Huri region of Beirut, Lebanon, using bullet holes created the Lebanese civil war.
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A pile of 5,250 illegal weapons are burned by Kenyan police in Ngong, Kenya. The weapons consisted of both confiscated and surrendered firearms that had been stockpiled over almost a decade and were destroyed by police as a message to the public to surrender others.
Ben Curtis / AP
A car bomb explodes next to Iraqi special forces armored vehicles as they advance towards Islamic State held territory in Mosul, Iraq. Troops have established a foothold in the city's east from where they are driving northward into the Tahrir neighborhood.
Felipe Dana / AP
Iraqi 18-month-old Jassem is comforted by an army medic while being treated for shrapnel head injuries at an open air field clinic in the Samah neighborhood of Mosul.
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The skin on 5-year-old Doaa's arms and neck is blackened after a rocket fired by Islamic State landed and exploded in Qayyara, Iraq.
Ari Jalal / Reuters
A displaced Iraqi woman cries after she finds out that her 15-year-old son Maitham was killed by an Islamic State mortar in Samah neighborhood of Mosul.
Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters
People release thousands of paper lanterns to mark the annual Yi Peng festival in the popular tourist city of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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A pair of women embrace each other in front of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France. France marked the anniversary of the Islamic extremists' coordinated attacks on Paris with a somber silence on Sunday and the reciting of the 130 names of those murdered.
Thibault Camus / AP
Protesters hold candles during an anti-government rally in central Seoul. Pressure on South Korea's scandal-hit president to resign escalated sharply with organizers claiming a million-strong turnout at one of the largest anti-government protests the country has ever witnessed.
Jung Yeon-je / AFP / Getty Images
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The groups National Nurses United and Progressive Democrats of America held the "People's Rally" to "demand economic and social justice and equality".
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Tala Rahal (left), age 14, and Ariana Echols (right), also 14, right, both from Lowell High School, pose for a photo while attending a protest of against Republican Donald Trump as President of the United States, in San Francisco, California.
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A woman is pepper sprayed in Rio de Janeiro as state public servants protest against austerity measures in front of the Rio de Janeiro state Assembly.
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A young girl adds a message written on a post-it note to a display in New York City that was started in reaction to the election of President-elect Donald Trump.
Lucas Jackson / Reuters
A veteran embraces his service dog during Remembrance Day ceremonies at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada.
Chris Wattie / Reuters
Members of a U.S. Army carry team move the flag-draped transfer case holding the remains of Army Pfc. Tyler R. Lubelt of Tamaroa, Illinois, during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware. Lubelt, age 20, who was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division in Fort Hood, Texas, died on Nov. 12 of injuries sustained from a suicide bomb attack at Bagram Airfield near Kabul in Afghanistan.
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Lt. Benny White, a Vietnam Veteran in the Marines, portrays a member of the 54th as he salutes during a Veterans Day Commemoration Ceremony for the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment in front of the Shaw Memorial across from the Mass. State House in Boston. The 54th was the first black regiment of soldiers in the US Army, as they fought in the Civil War.
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A visitor touches a painting created using a relief printing technique that adds volume and texture, part of and exhibition titled "Making the Invisible Visible" at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. The painting is one of six copies of works by masters such as Pablo Picasso and Sandro Botticelli made for the country's first ever exhibition for the blind. This exhibition allows the blind, or those with limited vision, a chance to create a mental image of a painting by feeling it.
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School girls throw poppies into a fountain during an Armistice Day event at Trafalgar Square in London, Britain.
Toby Melville / Reuters
People take photos as an Ariane 5 space rocket with a payload of four Galileo satellites lifts off from ESA's European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Jody Amiet / AFP / Getty Images
A Scottish red deer grazes following the end of the rutting season in Glen Etive, Scotland. The rutting season sees the large dominant red deer stags compete against each other for mating rights and can be heard roaring and bellowing in an attempt to attract the hinds. The rut draws to a close in early November when the stags spend the winter feeding to regain strength for the following season.
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A plane flies in front of the supermoon after taking off from Brisbane Airport in Brisbane, Australia.
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Beautiful Double-Exposures Reveal Long-Standing Trauma
Elwood Friday
St. Phillips Indian Residential School (1951–1953): "I've never told anyone what went on there. It's shameful. I am ashamed. I'll never tell anyone, and I've done everything to try to forget."
Daniella Zalcman
At face value, Daniella Zalcman's new book, Signs of Your Identity explores the deep trauma that residential schools inflicted on the Indigenous students who were forced to attend them in Canada throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The book goes much deeper than that though, exploring the construction of cross-cultural identities, trauma, and resilience. Her images thoughtfully combine portraits with elements of the landscapes where the schools were located. The intersection starts to speak to larger narratives about historical rights and legacies in addition to the individual experiences.
We spoke with Zalcman about her process via email.
Can you speak a bit about your process of choosing which images would be superimposed?
Daniella Zalcman: For every survivor I met, I'd interview him or her first, with a conversation that would last anywhere from 15 minutes to 3 hours, take a few portraits, and then go in search of an image that was somehow evocative of that person's experience in residential school. Sometimes they're very literal — the broken window from the dilapidated remains of Muskowekwan Indian Residential School where Valerie Ewenin was a student, the river near Beauval Indian Residential School where several of Joseph Edechanchyonce's friends drowned while trying to escape. Others are more metaphorical, more rooted in memory and emotion. But there's always a particular and specific logic to why each person is paired with that specific secondary image.
Valerie Ewenin
Muskowekwan Indian Residential School (1965–1971): "I was brought up believing in the nature ways, burning sweetgrass, speaking Cree. And then I went to residential school and all that was taken away from me. And then later on, I forgot it, too, and that was even worse."
Daniella Zalcman
This picturesque little village is Lebret, Saskatchewan, home to the Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School, which operated under the federal government and Catholic Church from 1884–1969, and under the governance of the Star Blanket Cree Nation from 1973–1998. While most of the original school structures have been demolished, one building remains, visible on the far right side of the photo.
Daniella Zalcman
What first got you interested in this subject?
DZ: I ended up in Canada in October to November 2014 chasing a public health story. I'd read a report that Indigenous Canadians have one of the fastest growing rates of HIV in the world, and that shocked me. Canada is wealthy, has a fantastic health care system, was an early adopter of a lot of progressive harm-reduction strategies like free needle exchanges and safe injection sites. So the fact that there was this massive epidemic, that an entire population was being left behind, was stunning to me. I spent a month traveling through British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Ontario — and at least 90% of the HIV positive Indigenous people I interviewed referenced residential school. I'd never heard of Indian boarding schools before, and once I started learning more about the system I was horrified and ashamed that it had been so thoroughly erased from American history textbooks.
The ruins of the Muskowekwan Indian Residential School.
Daniella Zalcman
Mike Pinay
Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School (1953–1963): "It was the worst 10 years of my life. I was away from my family from the age of 6 to 16. How do you learn about family? I didn't know what love was. We weren't even known by names back then. I was a number." "Do you remember your number?" "73."
Daniella Zalcman
How long were you working on it?
DZ: The images that went into the book were all made during a two-week trip to Saskatchewan in August 2015. But the idea and the research that went into the book were about a year in the making. And I'm still working on the project now — I've spent several months so far on the US chapter photographing and interviewing in Navajo and Lakota communities, and plan on visiting roughly eight more countries that had similar school systems.
Did subject lead concept, or vice versa?
DZ: I got back from my trip in 2014 and realized that a lot of the images that I'd made weren't successful. It was an accurate depiction of the systemic crises that many Indigenous communities are fighting, and certainly those crises are part of the bigger legacy of cultural genocide and forced assimilation, but the images alone didn't convey that. There were a lot of photos of First Nations Canadians struggling with substance addiction and poverty, and those images felt stigmatizing and two-dimensional without the greater context of what happened at these schools.
So when I went back a year later, I realized that I needed to try something different. I couldn't photograph in the schools, because they no longer existed, and I'd tried to photograph the legacy itself and that didn't work either. So I realized that for me, the best way to tell this story about memory and intergenerational trauma and the things we pass from parent to child was through multiple exposure portraits.
Rick Pelletier
Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School (1965–1966): "My parents came to visit and I told them I was being beaten. My teachers said that I had an active imagination, so they didn't believe me at first. But after summer break they tried to take me back, and I cried and cried and cried. I ran away the first night, and when my grandparents went to take me back, I told them I'd keep running away, that I'd walk back to Regina if I had to. They believed me then."
Daniella Zalcman
A swingset in Beauval, Saskatchewan, near the former site of the Beauval Indian Residential School.
Daniella Zalcman
The project, which was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, includes the statement:
For more than a century, the Canadian government operated a network of Indian Residential Schools that were meant to assimilate young indigenous students into western Canadian culture. Indian agents would take children from their homes as young as two or three and send them to church-run boarding schools where they were punished for speaking their native languages or observing any indigenous traditions, routinely sexually and physically assaulted, and in some extreme instances subjected to medical experimentation and sterilization.
The last residential school closed in 1996. The Canadian government issued its first formal apology in 2008.
Generations of Canada's First Nations forgot who they were. Languages died out, sacred ceremonies were criminalized and suppressed. These double exposure portraits explore the trauma of some of the 80,000 living survivors who remain, and through accompanying interviews address the impact of intergenerational trauma, lateral violence, and document the slow path towards healing.
The only road from Beauval Indian Residential School (at least 50 years ago, at the darkest point in the school's history), led straight to the Beaver River. Students regularly tried to run away, but either were too small to try to cross or drowned in the attempt.
Daniella Zalcman
Rosalie Sewap
Guy Hill Indian Residential School (1959–1969): "We had to pray every day and ask for forgiveness. But forgiveness for what? When I was 7 I started being abused by a priest and a nun. They'd come around after dark with a flashlight and would take away one of the little girls almost every night. You never really heal from that. I turned into an alcoholic and it's taken me a long time to escape that. I can't forgive them. Never."
Daniella Zalcman
Deedee Lerat
Marieval Indian Residential School (1967–1970): "When I was 8, Mormons swept across Saskatchewan. So I was taken out of residential school and sent to a Mormon foster home for five years. I've been told I'm going to hell so many times and in so many ways. Now I'm just scared of God."
Daniella Zalcman
Daniella Zalcman is a photographer based in London. Her book Signs of Your Identity is available here.
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Well Fuck, Britney Spears Just Released Her Best Music Video In 10 Years
“Slumber Party” is here.
After the tragic problematic mess that was the "Make Me..." music video, the world as we once knew it was thrown into total chaos and war and shit.
Pop music was on the verge of being over and canceled.
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The other girls didn't know what to do.
Getty Images/ John Gara
Sad!
Getty Images/ John Gara
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17 Dogs Who Are Carefully Bending Their Human's Rules
“What do you mean? I’m not on the couch.”
"I'm not on the couch. I'm on the blanket, which is on the couch."
"The rule is that I don't lie on the couch cushions. I am not on the couch cushions."
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"I'm not on the ottoman. One of my paws is still on the floor, see?"
MuskyTusk
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A Mysterious Giant Foam Blob Oozes Through A California City
2016 isn’t over yet, folks.
By 12:30 p.m., the foam was at least 5 feet deep, according to KTVU.
Police responded to the scene, though there seemed "to be confusion about what to do next, and how to remove the massive amount of foam from the street," the station reported.
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How Normal Are Your Thanksgiving Dinner Opinions?
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17 Of The Hottest Beach Bodies You'll Ever See
Suns out, buns out.
Every year the Huntington Dog Beach in Huntington Beach, CA, hosts a Corgi Beach Day, and it is PERFECT. Just look at all these beautiful beach babes.
This floofy beach booty.
This bodacious butt.
This round rump.
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What % Draco Malfoy Are You?
“Wait ‘til my father hears about this.”
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17 Famous Movie Moments That Were Actually Improvised
Robert De Niro came up with “You talking to me?” himself.
Willy Wonka's entrance, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Gene Wilder accepted the role of Willy Wonka on the condition that he got to add his surprise entrance to the film. In letters to the director he explained his reasoning: "From that time on, no one will know if I'm lying or telling the truth."
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The chest-waxing scene, The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
The whole chest-waxing scene was completely authentic – it was Steve Carell's first time being waxed and every single swearword was a genuine response to the pain.
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"Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?", Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Like many scenes in the film, the hitchhiking one is improvised. Peter Farrelly, one of the directors of Dumb and Dumber, said in an AMA that 15% of the film was improvised.
New Line Cinema
The jewellery box close, Pretty Woman (1990)
In an interview, Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall revealed that Richard Gere's snap of the necklace box wasn't planned, hence Julia Roberts's reaction.
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The Unexpected Love Interest In “The Edge Of Seventeen”
STX Productions
His first appearance in The Edge of Seventeen is a humble one: The audience meets soft-spoken, charming-yet-awkward Erwin Kim (Hayden Szeto) in a high school history class, after the cheeky lead Nadine Byrd (Hailee Steinfeld) mouths off to their teacher. With a bashful smile and attentive eyes, Hayden compliments his classmate’s sweater in an attempt to start a conversation. Days later, he tries again, even mustering the courage to ask her out on a mini golf date. “We should go sometime…just us,” he says hesitantly. Upon realizing he’s about to be friend-zoned, he skittishly changes his stance: “Or a group … that’d be so much more fun.”
Although much of the coming-of-age film revolves around the rowdy and larger-than-life Nadine, it also devotes time to unveiling the many layers to Erwin, the unassuming love interest of the film. It’s a more multidimensional representation of an Asian-American man than those typically featured in Hollywood films, which surprised even Szeto.
“Being an Asian-American actor, you’re kind of jaded,” he told BuzzFeed News at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills in late October. “You’re just used to a certain kind of role … you know, the best friend, the tech guy, or anything that underrepresents you as a human being.”
Based on his many auditioning experiences, Szeto said he couldn’t help but feel “desensitized” by the time he got the callback for the role of Erwin. For his first Edge of Seventeen audition, he’d only seen a few pages of the script. Not knowing that the movie actually ends with Nadine opening up to a romance with Erwin, he had thought, “Oh, of course he’s that guy who doesn’t get the girl.”
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He received the full script during his second audition with director-producer-writer Kelly Fremon Craig, which is when he found out that — “Oh shoot, OK!” — Erwin wasn’t a sidekick or auxiliary character.
In fact, The Edge of Seventeen actively breaks down what viewers may think they know about him based on his ethnicity. “I guess I'm just your average guy, I guess," a visibly nervous Erwin tells Nadine the first time they hang out. Nadine cuts him off and jumps to a slew of conclusions about him. "Wait, let’s see if I can guess ... Your mom gets on you about your grades and practicing your instruments. She makes a great egg sandwich after years of owning a restaurant downtown,” she spews thoughtlessly. “Your dad? Quiet, rough. Never really says, ‘I love you,’ but with a stoic presence, you know he cares.”
What Nadine describes is nothing like Erwin’s life, which becomes clear in the way he responds: remaining silent while nodding politely. Szeto explained his approach and response in that scene: “I’m just like ... that’s really sad if she thinks that of me. I could’ve went the direction of, ‘Oh, those things are true, and now I’m embarrassed’ … But I chose to be like, ‘I’m not like that. I’m sad that you think I’m a stereotype.’” It’s a scene that struck a chord with Szeto, who said he’s dealt with the consequences of such overgeneralizations in Hollywood.
Born and bred in Richmond, Vancouver (a town “full of rich Asian kids”), 31-year-old Szeto grew up in a family of artists. While his grandfather was a famous sculptor and his father a painter, Szeto found himself drawn to the performance arts. “I remember I would sneak off and watch Tom Cruise in Top Gun — that’s the one movie I watched over and over and over again as a kid,” he said, also naming Bruce Lee as one of his idols. “Since Bruce Lee, I haven’t seen any [major] Asian-Americans on the screen, and there was a big void for a while.”
And the Asian-American characters he did see on the big screen weren’t all that complex or true-to-life. That’s why he decided to “take the reins” to play Erwin and give him “as much strength” as possible. Though his character is more reserved, he does stand up for himself and wields sarcasm, exchanging quips with Nadine. “I dedicated Erwin to the Asian-American community,” Szeto said earnestly. “I felt like it was important.”
As Nadine starts spending more time with Erwin in The Edge of Seventeen, viewers discover that his parents — who are never shown in the movie — are living apart from him in South Korea for three months, and he has their huge mansion all to himself. Although Nadine seems thunderstruck by his freedom and wealth, Erwin seems less than thrilled. He’s a “parachute kid,” an international student who moved to the United States without his parents for a more well-rounded education.
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It’s a lifestyle Szeto knows well. When he was 15, his own parents moved back to Hong Kong, leaving Szeto and his sister in the care of his aunt. Playing a parachute kid was “second nature to me because I grew up like that. My house is not nearly as big, but I did grow up around kids like Erwin,” he explained. “They’re like 16-year-old kids with … an Aston Martin, and they are incredibly lonely. Nobody wants to be their friends, and friends that want to … are just mooching off them.”
Szeto took cues from his own childhood as well. “I’ve gotten closer to my parents recently, but because they were absent for most of my adolescence, I get that longing and [loneliness],” Szeto explained. He tried to bring that depth to the role of Erwin. “He doesn’t have that father figure, so he has to figure it out himself. That’s why he keeps stumbling around,” he said. “That’s probably one thing you didn’t know about Erwin: his relationship with his parents.”
He credits Fremon Craig, who wrote Erwin as an Asian-American, for writing inclusively and for giving him the freedom to shape the character. “Kelly put enough bread crumbs around the script for me to fill in the gaps nicely by myself … we kind of figured him out on the way.” Getting the part of Erwin and starring alongside Steinfeld and actors like Woody Harrelson has been a “mindfuck” for Szeto, who said The Edge of Seventeen is a project he imagined landing much later in his career. “It’s a true blessing,” he said.
As for Szeto and his own parents, they’re reveling in the actor’s breakthrough.
“My mom called me like, ‘Tell me everything. Tell me every detail,’” Szeto said, remembering the days after the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, where The Edge of Seventeen premiered.
During a recent trip to Hong Kong, Szeto and his father visited his grandfather’s grave, and the actor recalled his father applauding him, albeit indirectly. “I remember standing there, and my dad [to the grave] was like, ‘Hey, Dad, so Hayden’s doing really well. He’s made it,’” he said, repeating his father’s words. “I’m like, ‘Dad, did you just indirectly compliment me?’ That was definitely a milestone in my life.”
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Your Subway Order Will Determine Your Exact Age And Hair Color
Your sandwich order tells all.
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We Want To See The Most Bizarre Picture You Have With Santa
Ho Ho Ho!
Sometimes the kids aren't all that happy about it...
...And sometimes the Santa just isn't that believable.
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Either way, it makes for quite a memorable photo.
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Can You Tell Fred And George Weasley Apart?
“I solemnly swear we are up to no good.”
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19 Charts For Anyone Hosting Thanksgiving This Year
Everything you need to know in infographic form.
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Make sure you buy enough (but also not too much) food, based on the number of people you'll be hosting.
Use these amounts to calculate what to request from people, too, if you're asking guests to bring appetizers, desserts, wine, or other parts of the meal.
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If your turkey arrives frozen, follow this guide for how long you should defrost it in the fridge.
This guide is only for an uncooked turkey, though — for a more detailed tutorial on defrosting your raw turkey, go here. If you bought a frozen, precooked turkey, make sure to follow the directions that came with the bird.
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If you're opting for a wet brine, make sure to use the right amount of liquid and let your turkey rest for the correct amount of time.
Read more details at Real Simple.
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No one could place the Sorting Hat on the heads of first years like she does. Just look at that flair.
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