Alexander Chee Quotes

Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

Alexander Chee

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As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.

Jessica Simpson

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I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

John Grant

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I really do not like having media moderators. Lincoln and Douglass didn't have moderators. Let the candidates ask one another questions.

Ann Coulter

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I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

Stephen Harper

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In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Sigmar Gabriel

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What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

Roy Rogers

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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Lord Byron

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When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it was happening. I had to have that role.

Jason Momoa

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There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

Dhani Jones

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People ask me so many questions.

Annie Lennox

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When you're at the highest point of your career at the highest level in your sport, any moment that you have these setbacks and injuries is devastating. You have to start back from zero, and you never know if you're going to get back to where you once were.

Ali Krieger

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Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.

William Golding

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