Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
J. G. Ballard -
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
Patricia Ireland -
As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
Karen Mills -
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
Sam Shepard -
If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
Quavo Migos -
Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
Vidya Balan
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
Wendy Kopp -
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
Randeep Hooda -
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
Jack Gleeson -
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
Bat for Lashes -
Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
Pat Paulsen
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
Randy Moss -
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
Nassau William Senior -
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger -
I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
Dan Marino -
As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
Taylor Swift -
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
Dan Quayle
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
Venus Williams -
I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
Karen Handel -
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
Leon Trotsky -
Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.
Rachel Sklar -
When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.
Kabir Sehgal -
You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.
Mary H.K. Choi