Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much that is not that so I did a lot of other research and a lot of thinking, a lot of struggling there.

Chang-Rae Lee

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• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

  

  Jackson Pollock
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• We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.

  

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• I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

  

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• No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

  

  Cyril Connolly
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• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
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• Aussi, les demeures disposées des deux côtés du chenal faisaient penser à des sites de la nature, mais d'une nature qui aurait créé ses œvres avec une imagination humaine.

  

  Marcel Proust
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• I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
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• (Eating meat) is really on the same moral level as child abuse. It’s the same thing. Animals are like children, they look to us for protection. We should protect them. I really feel quite smug about mad cow disease and foot and mouth and so forth, and I just think ‘Well, what do you expect? People have been saying it for years.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
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• If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

  

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  • Nature
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• The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • World
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• Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Real
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• There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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• Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

  

  Daniel Pinkwater
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• Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

  

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• I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

  

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• I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.

  

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• Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

  

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• To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.

  

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• I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.

  

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• My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

  

  Patti Smith
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• Marc Jacobs Beauty is really exciting for me; when I was at school, I would always struggle to find make-up that suited my skin tone, and I certainly wouldn't find anything from a luxury brand. I'm glad that girls don't have that problem anymore.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
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• I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much that is not that so I did a lot of other research and a lot of thinking, a lot of struggling there.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • War
  • Mean
  • Struggle