Alexander Chee Quotes

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.

Alexander Chee

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BeautyLiveWaterBlueStillness

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

John Glover

TeacherResponsibilityPeopleStand

Golf's a great game, and you meet a lot of people along the way.

Matt Kuchar

GreatPeopleGameGolfYouMeet

You need to create a place where young students can flesh out their business plans and further develop their research projects and then have a fund to help students get started in their businesses.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

BusinessResearchHelpYouCreate

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

Michael B. Jordan

WantActorWillProducerMoveLike

The thing is to convince people that a part not written for a Latina woman - or maybe not even written for a woman at all - is a female part. You convince them you can do it.

Ana de Armas

WomanPeopleYou Can Do ItYouEven

Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.

Trip Adler

ReadingSeeingWantOthersPatterns

If you are going to vote in this country, you should be a citizen. To be a citizen in this country, you should know English.

Tom Tancredo

YouCountryKnowCitizenVoteGoing

I've always been a rebel, always curious about the world around me.

Martina Navratilova

CuriousMeWorldRebelAlwaysBeen

I release my scoops strategically.

Mike Cernovich

ReleaseStrategically

I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal.

Misty Copeland

SleepingPoorCaliforniaAlwaysMeal

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

TodayArchitectureCreativeTomorrow

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

Donald Barthelme

StrongFictionHereFactFewStrain

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