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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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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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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You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
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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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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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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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No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.
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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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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
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I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
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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.
