"Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Gish Jen

#People Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Needs Quotes

“There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.”
“Seeing my children in the morning as they come down from their bedrooms makes my heart come alive. There's just no better moment in my day.”

Source : "Interview with Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I don't think of music as being a competition - what I make is exactly what I want it to be for me, and it's not better or worse than anything else. I'm just trying to be the best at what I am, or that I possibly can be. And when I've done that, I feel incredibly confident and there's nothing anyone can see to dampen that, but I don't think that because it means something to me, it has to necessarily mean something to other people.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
“Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”
“Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.”
“It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes.”

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