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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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 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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The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
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Hot today, forgotten tomorrow. I'm not buying anything.
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I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.
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Maybe there is something I got from it. Maybe you also start to be clear on certain things.
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How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?
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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.
