Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.

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• When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Trump

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Break

• Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Decision

• There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

  

  Kanye West
  • Trying
  • School
  • Jesus

• The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • Reality
  • Ideology

• I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Little Things

• You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • World
  • Money
  • Education

• It took a lot of water to down just that fucking bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my fucking throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened fucking once, for Christ's sake.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • World
  • Guy

• For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

  

  Donna Karan
  • World
  • Today
  • Motorcycle

• I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but I don't tweet. I don't want to have to express my opinion in 140 characters. That's like writing haiku. You need a certain amount of legroom to review a play properly.

  

  Ben Brantley
  • Writing
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Trying
  • Fear
  • Rest

• We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • World
  • Fighting
  • Violence

• Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

  

  Curt Weldon
  • Trying

• Don't take shortcuts while building your company - keep trying for the best.

  

  Bhavish Aggarwal
  • Trying

• I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Trying
  • Moments
  • Chaos

• I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times.' I was their nightlife correspondent. They paid me fifty bucks an article.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Writing
  • School

• I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would gain an understanding as to why perhaps - perhaps - the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the New York Police Department and others in law enforcement greatly feared what Malcolm X was about, because he was trying to build a broad - an unprecedented black coalition across the lines of black nationalism and integration. And in way, it presages 30 years ahead of time, the Million Man March.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Men

• Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Suits

• The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Time
  • American
  • War

• Technology is a tough realm to navigate as a younger woman who is not married. It can be hard to cultivate professional relationships because you have to be conscious of how to engage potential investors.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Technology
  • Professional

• I've had a terrible career.

  

  Benjamin Bratt
  • Career

• I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying