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.

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• I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Plays

• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • College
  • Paid

• 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
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

• Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Book
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• We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Always
  • Boundaries
  • Push

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

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • She
  • Job

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

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Enjoy
  • Actors
  • Working

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

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • City
  • Morning

• 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
  • Age
  • Father

• 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
  • Nature
  • Imagination

• 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
  • Light
  • Hand

• (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
  • People
  • Children
  • Moral

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

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Nature
  • Pretty
  • Poverty

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

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • World
  • Reading
  • Value

• 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
  • Home
  • Failure

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

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Children

• 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
  • People
  • Women
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Ellen G. White

• We have every reason to say, and I note this with great satisfaction, that a truly friendly relationship has evolved with China, and in many key areas these relations, without any exaggeration, have a strategic character. As we say, the strategic character of privileged partnership.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Character
  • Friendly
  • Partnership

• Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friends
  • Christian

• Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

  

  Katy Butler
  • Care
  • Rail
  • Grapple

• What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Money
  • Struggle

• 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