Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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I would like to direct.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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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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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.
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If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it.
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
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If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
