Anchee Min Quotes

When I first came to America, you know, I would look at the newsstands and see the women on the magazine covers. I had never seen anyone smile the way these girls smile! It's like they have nothing to worry about!

Anchee Min

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: January 14, 1957

Topics

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I do watch what I eat but I've got a real sweet tooth.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

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Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

Ann Cleeves

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Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands.

Stephanie Savage

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If you look at these bands like The Beatles, they did something that was new for that time, whether it was shocking or just a new direction that they were going.

Sonny Sandoval

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You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

Mickey Rooney

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Michel de Montaigne

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As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

Michael Learned

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I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.

Dr. Dre

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It's all about impressing people.

Christine Taylor

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Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'

Archie Panjabi

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When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

Antonio Tabucchi

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One of the things you will notice about the book of Mark is that if you read through it in one setting, you will be breathing hard at the end. Literally, Mark has set up this book in a way that it is almost like several snapshots of Jesus Christ.

Paul Washer

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