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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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.
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If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
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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.
