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Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.

Chang-Rae Lee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mother Grateful Parents Loved Want

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

Jerry Saltz

Morning New York Healing World Early

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

Jens Lekman

Character Happy People Better Person

'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.

Steve Erickson

Dreams Youth Driving You Company

I am inclined to believe that it would be easier to build a new party than to save the Democratic Party from itself.

Michelle Alexander

I Am Believe Party New Build Would

I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when teams shoot 45% or better from the floor, what is their record? And if they shoot under that what is their record?

Doug Collins

Think Better You Look Sometimes Guy

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.

Clyde Edgerton

Good Hope Children People Me Think

America is the future. I am committed to the States. I'm guessing this is going to be a permanent move.

Alistair Overeem

Future I Am America Permanent Going

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

William Glasser

Education Good Teachers Room Little

I'm a sucker for movie reruns. Anytime they're on, I can't leave the house.

Paul Wesley

House Leave Sucker Movie Anytime

It's wonderful that Poland is free again and there's open debate and people can pursue their interests. I'm all for it.

Pawel Pawlikowski

People Free Debate Open Pursue

Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.

Shane Black

Music People Think New Way Sound

Blackfoot was one of the ultimate live bands... there was no pretense, no gimmickry; it was sound, lights, and rock and roll. Our whole goal was to be terrifying... to strike fear and cause havoc in a closing band's minds.

Rickey Medlocke

Fear Live Rock And Roll Goal Lights