Aileen Lee Quotes

It's not that I am saying that women and men are completely different. But I do think that if you are one of the only people around the table who is a woman, by definition, you're different.

Aileen Lee

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I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.

Joe Bonamassa

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As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

Joan D. Vinge

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Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

Meg Wolitzer

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

John Keats

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My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.

Jeffrey Brown

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I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

Tommy Mottola

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The Catholic Church, though I think it's important that people grow up with moral values, I just always disagreed with their tactics, which I thought were fright tactics, as opposed to sitting down and explaining the situation.

Ronnie James Dio

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You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.

Mary H.K. Choi

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I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

Mickey Rourke

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I actually grew up in the 'burbs - New Rochelle, specifically, most famously home to Rob and Laura Petrie of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

Joshua Malina

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Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.

Dawn Steel

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