Min Jin Lee famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.
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The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order—the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.
-- Min Jin Lee
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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
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In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.
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To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her.
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Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church,
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When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.
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