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.
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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.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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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.
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Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
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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.
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As far as Raman Raghav is concerned, he is ruthless.
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We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.
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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.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It's not that I don't want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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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.
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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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.
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17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.
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Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
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I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.
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I've been hot, I've been lukewarm, I've been freezing, but I've always been a headliner.
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Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting.
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I grew up singing in church as a little boy.
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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.
