Ma Jian Quotes
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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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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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.
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I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
