Alexander Chee Quotes

I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.

Alexander Chee

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I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

Jim Broadbent

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I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

Robert Greenblatt

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And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.

John Perkins

WorkChangeMoneyPeopleBookKnow

I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don't necessarily have to do the work of going to Milan and then to Paris or New York, trying to find the right photographer, artist, or designer to see you.

Amber Valletta

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Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

Steven Spielberg

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I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

Steven Spielberg

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In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Louis de Bernieres

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I don't think I am even the best I can be. I like to listen to other singers and learn from them, but I'm always working on myself, trying to improve, trying to be very tough with myself.

Juan Diego Florez

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My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Jay Weatherill

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The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.

Desi Arnaz

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Many mothers or daughters assume that words only mean one thing. 'If I feel criticised, that has to be the whole story', and 'if I feel I am being helpful, that has to be the whole story'.

Deborah Tannen

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