Chungliang Al Huang Quotes
When you wake up in the morning, you must really wake up totally-physically and mentally. Otherwise, don't bother with the day.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
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If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.
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When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a way to get outs.
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When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.
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I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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Let's not play games. What I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.
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In her sepulcher there by the sea - In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
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There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.
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As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
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If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.
Elliott Erwitt -
It's difficult to find a house with no map at 3 o'clock in the morning in a foreign country and where you don't speak the language.
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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
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I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
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When you wake up in the morning, you must really wake up totally-physically and mentally. Otherwise, don't bother with the day.
