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Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.

Chang-Rae Lee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Fun World Enough Enjoy Pause Right

Traditionally in capitalism, when you have more cash, you can fund more activity, which produces more jobs and creates more wealth. That's basic economic theory.

John Ralston Saul

Capitalism You Wealth More Cash

Jeff Bridges wants you to take it easy, man.

Stephen Rodrick

Man Bridges Easy You Take Wants

Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.

Steven Levitan

Family People Me Friends Los Angeles

I think the whole 'tiger mom' thing is a very common trope. People like to show Asian moms giving pressure, but they don't really show the love that comes with it.

Ronny Chieng

Love People Mom Think Pressure

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Martin Van Creveld

Future Past Sun Will In The Past

Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.

Misty Copeland

Me Craving Something Been Guide

I know who I am, and I know my story, and the things that I talk about are authentic and real, and I always say this: I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.

Logic

I Am Story Loved Know Say Talk

I look at life through product, and my goal is to impact people and make their lives better.

Joy Mangano

Life People Impact Better Look Goal

I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.

Chris Hadfield

Wife Growing Up Growing Now Three

In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play.

August Wilson

Good Friend Character Black Play

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Augustus Hare

Flowers Sweet Believe Moral Bright

We were in New York, and we were performing at a morning show. This fan literally ran from that studio in the middle of New York City to our airport, which was very far away. That fan ran all the way there to see us, and we were so in awe of that guy.

Ally Brooke

Morning New York City Far Away New