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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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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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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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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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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Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.