Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
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Still loved but deprived of grace.
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Going on tour with the man leading the way with traditional country music... Jon Pardi. And our single is Wild West!!! What is my life!?
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
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Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.
