Su-chin Pak Quotes
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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I like most any place if I have Internet access.
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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If you want success, be unique.
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I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.
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What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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I get pretty grumpy about TV.
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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
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Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.
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I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't write about it. I would never do drugs, so I would always get the same response from people: "Smart kid, more for me." Whether it was a joke or sincere or both, but I was just happy not to be in there partying with the band like some of these other journalists.
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Friends give you a shoulder to cry on. But best friends are ready with a shovel to hurt the person that made you cry.
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Any band will say that they'd be nothing without the fans.
