Kevin Kwan Quotes
When my first novel, 'Crazy Rich Asians,' was published in 2013, many readers were astonished to learn that in Asia, there were women who dressed in couture from morning till night.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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If you've never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a room full of people who can really appreciate what I was lucky enough to grow up with, simply by being born in Brooklyn.
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Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time.
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When my first novel, 'Crazy Rich Asians,' was published in 2013, many readers were astonished to learn that in Asia, there were women who dressed in couture from morning till night.
