Alexander Chee Quotes
I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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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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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.
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Whatever good works ye send on before death... ye shall find with God.
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In 2006, after 12 years being separated away from my family and then seven years knowing that they were dead and them thinking that we were dead, we reunited... in the most dramatic, American way possible. Live, on television.
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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
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The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.
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I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.
