Alexander Chee Quotes

I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.

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• Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Memorable
  • Restaurant
  • Meals

• Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Years
  • Now

• Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Producer

• It'll seem convenient 'cause I am ambassador for the charity, but Look Good Feel Better launched a set of makeup brushes through Priceline, and I use the multi-tasking brush to apply my liquid foundation. It's wonderful. As good as the Bobbi Brown Full Coverage Face brush, which I also use.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Makeup
  • Charity
  • Ambassador

• Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Books

• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Me
  • Economic
  • Program

• As far as Raman Raghav is concerned, he is ruthless.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Far
  • Ruthless
  • As Far As

• We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Doing
  • More
  • Aggressive

• For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Want
  • Me
  • Champion

• I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Ideas
  • Politics
  • Revolution

• I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Up
  • Done
  • Adventure

• I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Music
  • House
  • Best

• 17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Age
  • Child

• Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Reality
  • Stock

• We started our struggle from 2005, and...we organized a lot of protests, weekly protests, in a place we called the Square of Liberty...We knew and know that the freedom of speech is the door to democracy and justice.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Democracy

• They say that the truth will set you freeBut then again, so will a lie...It depends if you're trying to get to the promised landOr if you're just trying to get by.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Trying
  • Truth

• A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Work
  • Music
  • Words

• The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • People
  • Words
  • Focus

• It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Done
  • Emotional
  • Goodbye

• I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Always
  • Said
  • Inside

• I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Soul
  • Betray
  • Ritualistic

• I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.

  

  Alexander Chee