Aileen Lee Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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'A Passage To India' by E. M. Forster - It opened my mind to a world I'd never known before.
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Dad wasn’t there much cos he had three or four jobs. First he was away at sea, later on he worked as an insurance salesman in the day and on a building site in the evening.
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Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
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Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
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The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.
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My dad was a dentist; my mom managed his office.
