"Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator."

-- Yiyun Li

#Football Quotes #Distance Quotes #Different Quotes

“I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.”

Source : Song: Breakaway, Album: Breakaway, 2004
“I have been the victim of heartless malice.”
“The customer is always right.”
“Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.”
“If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.”
“There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.”
“I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.”
“My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me”

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