Anchee Min Quotes
When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.
Quotes to Explore
-
My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
-
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
-
I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
-
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
-
I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
-
I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
-
Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
-
Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
-
I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
-
'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
-
I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
-
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
-
I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
-
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
-
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
-
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
-
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
-
You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
-
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
-
My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.
-
My memories are not of time but of times.
-
I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.
-
Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.
-
When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.
