Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house.
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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
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To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that have no answers.
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Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous.
