Li Lu Quotes

In my 40s, the two cultures finally came to peace with one other inside me, and I have come to identify myself as both 100% Chinese and 100% American simultaneously.

Li Lu

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MyselfPeaceMeAmericanInsideTwo

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MeStoryFeelBackBuildOut

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

Joan Rivers

WishLookKnowI WishPlasticLike

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.

Jeremy Northam

PeopleForwardEmotionalCarryBeen

The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'

Andrew Clements

SchoolBookPraiseKidRealHighest

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

Angela Duckworth

LifeFocusAchievementThinkingCare

The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.

Simon Kuznets

CommunicationGrowthProcessAhead

The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats.

Tom Cotton

FaceBudgetMilitaryReflectMust

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

Rocco DiSpirito

WorkSpaceRestaurantPlaceRight

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

Robert Wyatt

YouthFashionThinkRockIndustry

I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.

Brenda Brathwaite

ExperiencePeopleMeBuildingThink

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

Annette Bening

I AmVoiceTryingPerfectFindSay

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

Alison Gopnik

GoodChildrenReachAnswerAdulthood

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