Alexander Chee Quotes

I've known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her.

Alexander Chee

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• I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Why
  • Remember

• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Better

• Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Change

• Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Walking
  • Creativity
  • Feet

• Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Love
  • Remember

• When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Hair
  • Sometimes
  • Fool

• I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Real
  • Trying

• My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • She
  • Mother
  • Person

• One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • True
  • Girl
  • Sad

• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Time
  • Garden
  • Married

• I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Beautiful
  • Faith
  • Wonderful

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Football

• Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Women
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Romantic

• Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I want you to dive consciously into the Self, i.e., into the Heart.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Heart

• When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions.

  

  Joel McHale
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• To be able to work with Bun B and be able to have a conversation, and the insights the OG has, and really be able to get just advice from him, is amazing.

  

  Justin Scott
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Advice

• Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Music
  • Air

• I've known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • She
  • Remember
  • Beautiful