Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I'm not cynical.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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Very ugly things were said about me.
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Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?
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When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
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Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
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In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
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I wasn't the most popular kid in school.
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I'm intrigued by what video can do. It can endear you to a song that might pass your ears otherwise. You remember interesting imagery. It can change your perspective.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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By the time the United States went to war with Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, I had made three trips to the country. I covered the fall of the Taliban in Kandahar and have been returning routinely for the past 14 years.
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Teens are strange and magical.
