Aileen Lee Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
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Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.
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I really feel my family is my priority.
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I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.
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