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Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Plan Out Things Where Going Idea

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

Friendship People Care Take Care

I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

Change People Think Help Know Need

One of my best friends growing up was Vietnamese, and he and his mom would teach me how to say certain things so I could impress my nail girls. Then the nail girls would teach me how to count to 100 and basic things like 'Thank you' and 'You're welcome.' It's funny, because any accent that I do now always turns into Vietnamese.

Anjelah Johnson

Funny Best Welcome Mom Growing Up

I wasn't setting out to write a documentary; if I had, I would have done it in a completely different way. I was asked to write a drama that would appeal to a big audience in America that had no knowledge or interest in The Tudors at all.

Knowledge America Drama Done Way

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

Women Way Empower Women Are Violent

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment.

Space Fate Environment Media Routine

I'm still a big wrestling fan. I buy the Pay-Per-Views. I think that gives me the right to speak out just like any other fan.

Me Speak Think Wrestling Right Out

I'm not a typical public school boy.

School Boy Public School Public

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Success Attitude Talent Winner Edge

It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.

Chris Van Allsburg

Me Black Picture Experiences Almost

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

Me Out Stick Many Category Makes

My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.

Wladyslaw Reymont

Father Mother Man Brother Solitude

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