Chang-Rae Lee Quotes
Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.Chang-Rae Lee
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
LaToya Jackson -
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
Nate Berkus -
Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.
Barton Gellman -
I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
Kangana Ranaut -
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
Laura Benanti
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Perfectionists are their own devils.
Jack Kirby -
I've loved men that wear un-ironed clothes, it doesn't make me fall out of love. When you love someone, you should see beyond their image. It just makes me want to iron their shirt. But once you love a person, they could wear a garbage bag!
Olga Kurylenko -
I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.
Patrick Dempsey -
If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.
Joe Walsh The Eagles -
Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.
Jenny Han
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My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.
Chris Pratt -
I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.
Jacob Lew -
I don't think anything should limit me. I don't think any industry should be disrespected or looked down upon.
Dulquer Salmaan -
The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan.
Neal Boortz -
Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.
Jerry Rubin -
There are few people in this world with whom I can converse.
John Adams
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James Baldwin is probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment.
Hal Elrod -
'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.
Felix Dennis -
I am mad about my wife.
David Bailey -
Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.
Chang-Rae Lee