Alexander Chee Quotes
One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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It was funny to hear that I'd slapped Bieber. I thought it was a joke. Then it blew up. I probably got 50 texts about it.
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You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
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One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.
