Alexander Chee Quotes

It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'

Alexander Chee

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• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Quality
  • Courage
  • Warrior

• Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Book
  • Picture

• DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Service

• It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • Done
  • Learn

• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • War
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Work
  • Imagination
  • Beauty

• Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Capacity

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • You
  • Start

• Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • May
  • Understanding
  • Same

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • High
  • Myself

• You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

  

  Edith Head
  • Want
  • Water
  • Horse

• Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • People
  • Music
  • Looking

• It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Funny

• When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Long
  • Job

• I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives.

  

  John Bradley-West
  • People
  • Experience

• I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.

  

  Carmen Ejogo
  • Great
  • Real
  • Simple

• Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Different
  • Single

• I'm not going to defend myself the rest of my life.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Defense

• It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Life
  • Night
  • Attention