Aileen Lee Quotes
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first 'adult novel,' Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'The Blue Castle.'
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When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.
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Every night she had fallen asleep dreaming about that kiss, and each kiss after.
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A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.
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The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.
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Top creative and innovative talent wants to live in a vibrant, transit-friendly, global city that offers access to not only great jobs but also great food, entertainment and culture.
