Min Jin Lee Quotes

For me, whatever you write about should be worthy of your attention, worthy of your gifts. That's very important.

Min Jin Lee

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MeAttentionYouImportantWrite

It's possible that in the future, women could be drafted not only into the military... but actually drafted into combat. I'm very uncomfortable with that.

John Fleming

WomenFutureUncomfortablePossible

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

Ann Leckie

WritingThinkShortFirstFiction

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

Simone de Beauvoir

LifeManYourselfYouFindWhy

You have to be open to everything.

Ruud Gullit

YouOpenEverything

Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

ScienceKnowFarmersAlwaysThings

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

Judith Martin

LifeHonestyPeopleCandidNameYou

Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved.

Judy Blume

LifeLoveLovedShareEverybody

'Are you sure you're going to be warm enough?' is a question I get a lot.

Josh Gondelman

WarmEnoughYouQuestionGoingSure

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

Douglas Southall Freeman

CharacterQualityMindStrangeThan

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.

Conrad Black

ChildrenTimeManCuriousFlyNews

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

Claude Vorilhon

LifeReachWillCloningMankind

I would love to be an example to young LGBTQ kids everywhere. I remember growing up and feeling like nobody in the media accurately represented me, and when they did, it was always made to seem like a bad thing.

Brianna Hildebrand

LoveMeGrowing UpMediaRemember

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