"I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough."

-- Min Jin Lee

#Writing Quotes #Korean Quotes #Enough Quotes

“I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 30, 2011.
“How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?”
“I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.”
“Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.”
“One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India”
“There are some women who are a good time and there are some women who are a good legacy.”
“Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion.Â All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals.Â So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed who become the 'dangerous class' in their city.”

Source : "The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them".
“In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.”

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