Alexander Chee Quotes
When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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We are all a sort of camelions, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.
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For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.
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If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.
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When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
