Alexander Chee Quotes
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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I am mentally strong.
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Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.
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It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.
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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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Everybody wanted something from me, and some days it felt like I was being pulled in thirty different directions, and I wondered how anyone figured out how to be all things to all people without going insane.
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The fun thing we get to do is mess around playing all sorts of different people. People that really existed, people that exist in a book - whom people love and have a specific idea of who they are, and you kind of have to work with that - or people that you can take a completely fresh look at.
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Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.
