Elise Hu Quotes

Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U.N. report.

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• I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Training
  • Japanese
  • Watch

• My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Character
  • Defending

• I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Myself
  • New
  • Breakfast

• My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Growing
  • Cash
  • Asset

• To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Realize

• 'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Future
  • Song
  • Style

• I believe in God.

  

  Imelda May
  • God
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

  

  Lanford Wilson
  • September
  • Traumatized
  • New Yorkers

• Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Action

• If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Reputation
  • Possession

• I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Writing
  • Poem
  • Discovering

• Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Earth

• Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Power
  • Girl
  • Equal

• Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Climbing
  • Bricks
  • Spice Girls

• Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!

  

  Ai Qing
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Tunnel

• Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Mind
  • Beauty
  • Girls

• I think a lot of people are aware of the things I do, but maybe because of who I am, they don't want to report the good things about Albert Belle.

  

  Albert Belle
  • Things
  • Report
  • Aware

• I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Christian
  • Grace
  • Praise

• Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U.N. report.

  

  Elise Hu
  • Girls
  • Soldiers
  • Report