"My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled."

-- Chang-Rae Lee

#Long Quotes #Korean Quotes #My Family Quotes

“You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.”
“Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.”

Source : Walter Lord (2012). “A Night to Remember”, p.74, Open Road Media
“There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?”

Source : A Life on Film ch. 14 (1967)
“I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.”
“What we have in common is what keeps us apart.”

Source : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins
“Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it”
“I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.”
“Youâ€™re not leaving me here alone,â€ I say. Because if he dies, Iâ€™ll never go home, not really. Iâ€™ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.”

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