Kevin Kwan Quotes
As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
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If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they're seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you're not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.
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When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.
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As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
