Jennifer 8. Lee Quotes
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A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.
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The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.
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Art is ..the mysterious expression of the mysterious..
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.
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Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.
