Iris Chang Quotes
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.
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I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
