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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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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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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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 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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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.
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Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.
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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.
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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.
