"I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?"

-- Rick Baker

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“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.”
“Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera Martin (1998). “Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”
“You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.”
“The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.”
“There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The more a man writes, the more he can write.”
“People are always shocked to hear I'm an athlete by profession and even more shocked when they hear I'm a fencer from the United States. I challenge the stereotype that Muslim women are oppressed and that a Muslim can be American by birth. It's amazing how many assumptions people make, but I embrace the opportunity to use this Olympic platform to educate.”

Source : "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.

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