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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I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.
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Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
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The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
