Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

Chang-Rae Lee

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• I'm in a constant state of gratitude.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.

  

  Pat Brown
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• I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.

  

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• I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.

  

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• To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• Emily’s chestnut-colored hair was thick and shiny as silk floss-an extraordinary female endowment. But like most female endowments, it was generally more trouble than it was worth.

  

  M. K. Hobson
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• Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.

  

  Anish Kapoor
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• I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)

  

  Charlie Sheen
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• ...the key factor in industry is creativity. I said there are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

  

  Akio Morita
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  • Creativity

• As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
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• I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

  

  Emily Mortimer
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• Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

  

  Andrew Cohen
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• I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

  

  Aviva
  • Done

• In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

  

  James E. Faust
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• The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

  

  Jan Karon
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• It was 'Shaolin Temple,' Jet Li's first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then I became a huge Jet Li/Jackie Chan fan after that.

  

  Daniel Wu
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• I think I was pretty reckless and definitely a bit out of control. Now, I'm more focused.

  

  Jason Momoa
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• A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • House
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• I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

  

  Jon Watts
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• I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
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• People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov
  • People
  • War
  • Peace

• Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  

  Wilford Woodruff
  • Time
  • Writing
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• I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Writing
  • War
  • Korean