Qiu Xiaolong Quotes

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

Qiu Xiaolong

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• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

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• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

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• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

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• I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

  

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• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

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• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

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• It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

  

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• Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

  

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• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

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• My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

  

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• I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

  

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• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  

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• I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.

  

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• When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

  

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• I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

  

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• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

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• If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.

  

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• I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.

  

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• Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

  

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• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

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• Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

  

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• It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

  

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• If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

  

  Qiu Xiaolong
  • Work
  • Real
  • Enough