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Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: south korean
Birth: July 29, 1965

Topics

Live Best People Problems Find

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

Light Push Shy Us Creatures Blinds

You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn't have before that in some way problematizes your relationship with your family. You just start to be able to have a sort of double vision about them and who they are and how you grew up that can be really painful.

Jennine Capó Crucet

Family Home Relationship Vision You

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

Me Right Ordinary Ruins Disciples

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

Father Opportunity Great Day Me You

If you're going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being who you are?

Finance Behavior Feel You Powerful

No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead.

Stavros Niarchos

Oil Coal He Wants Stoke Regulate

Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

You Why Him Out Guy Knock

If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that.

Home Dreams People Win Down True

I have two mini dachshunds, Lola and Charlie.

Two Mini Charlie

Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

Story Rich Hood Tax Old Republican

If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence.

Joseph Pulitzer

Service Money People Advertising

If you are wearing a JoJo bow, you are a Siwanator. If you are a Siwanator, then you are nice, powerful, confident, and believe in yourself.

Believe In Yourself Yourself Believe

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