Alex Chiu Quotes
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.
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We want a country. and we will get it, our country.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.
