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.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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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.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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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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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.
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When people say I'm a star, I don't believe it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.
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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.
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I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.
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I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
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I didn't use a phone until I was 14.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
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Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.
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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.
