Chang-Rae Lee Quotes
It's not that I wrote those details, but photos can give you the confidence that you have a real feel for the landscape. Then you can invent with a solid kind of faith, and recreate a feel and flavor of the time, and, one hopes, a tonality, a sense of that time having been lived by those characters.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I've never been on a date.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
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I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.
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Like most authors, I also love to read.
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I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.
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The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.
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I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life.
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All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.
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It's not that I wrote those details, but photos can give you the confidence that you have a real feel for the landscape. Then you can invent with a solid kind of faith, and recreate a feel and flavor of the time, and, one hopes, a tonality, a sense of that time having been lived by those characters.
