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Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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War Kind Write Sense Made Needs

As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy.

Great Consistency Political Policy

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

Wife Death People Me Holiday Know

Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.

Health Road Musicians Mental Health

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

Beautiful You Hot Everything Expect

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

End Violence Redneck Segregation Nor

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

People Motivation Mysterious Call

For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.

Character Fun White Over Years Role

A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.

Will Weak Mental Only Whose Disease

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

Perspective Me Book Think Right

I would like to be remembered as the reporter who snuck back stage to all the off-limits shows, be it the Vatican dressing room, the Pentagon war room, or the Celtics locker room. Some curtains ought never to be pulled back; others deserve to be ripped down. When appropriate, I want to be the curtain remover.

Jonathan Franklin

War Back Down Want Deserve Never

Parents will be parents. Even now, my mom asks me sometimes, 'When are you going to go back and get a real job?'

Job Parents Me Mom You Back

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Love Art Understand Everyone To Love

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