Alexander Chee Quotes
My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
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My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.
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All of my family is so close. We're always over at each other's houses.
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I was very impressed with Davis Guggenheim's 'An Inconvenient Truth.' He's inspired me as one of the newer, cutting-edge documentary filmmakers. I see those films, and I'm just instinctively drawn to them.
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My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.
