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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think I was pretty reckless and definitely a bit out of control. Now, I'm more focused.
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I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next to the U.S. Capitol and the White House, both of which were under the control of segregationists and their collaborators.
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The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
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When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.
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My wife sent her photograph to the lonely hearts club. They sent it back, said they weren't that lonely.
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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.
