Chang-Rae Lee Quotes
I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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A will finds a way.
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We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
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Undeniably, we were on God's side in World War II and the Cold War. But were we ourselves without sin in those just struggles?
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I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
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I've always found boxing to be an incredibly pure sport. The level of character of most fighters I find very high. And it's just the best workout you can get.
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Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.
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Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
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I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.
