Min Jin Lee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

  • There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

  • In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

  • To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.

  • 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.

  • If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her.

  • Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church,

  • When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.