Chang-Rae Lee Quotes
There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.
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I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.
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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
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Topshop is the best. I don't know how I'd live without it. Most of my clothes are from there.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.
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It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.
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The March of Dimes
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During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
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There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.
