Chang-Rae Lee Quotes
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
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I like the old-school muscle cars.
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Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
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I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.
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My sister was three years older than me, and she was like the stone-cold '70s fox. I looked like a short Polish farm woman, and so our journals were wildly different.
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Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
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Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
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Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.
