Eileen Chang Quotes
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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I write novels and other things.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
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I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.
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I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
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I'm singing this song for you and your mum that's all,And it won't be long before everyone is gone.
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It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
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My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.
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I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'
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I have a full Tuscan lunch and dinner every day in my home; my husband's a fantastic chef.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.
