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 think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
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For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.
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Authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone - it's meant to.
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He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language.
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Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.
