Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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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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What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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“Maybe,” he says slowly, as if each word is an effort, “she took advantage of me.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous.
