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Steve is nice but he's strictly entry level. — Max Mitchell

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

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be. — Gish Jen

What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit. — Gish Jen

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life. — Gish Jen

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so. — Gish Jen

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it. — Gish Jen

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men. — Gish Jen

There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story. — Jeaniene Frost

You couldn't count on Providence for anything ever. — Ann Brashares

Using you as a standard is completely unfair to the rest of the female population — Colleen Hoover

Justine, whenever someone says 'this is for your own good,' it's a guarantee they're about to cause you some kind of damage. — Lisa Kleypas

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs. — Tennessee Williams

There is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun. — Gish Jen

The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners ... — Dave Evans

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male. — Gish Jen

The thing stank of unnamed yearnings, unfulfilled wishes, and a hunger so deep it make her feel hollow inside. — J.D. Lakey

He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see how much so. America was no America. — Gish Jen

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent! — Gish Jen

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. — Chuck Palahniuk

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours. — Epictetus

Of course he bothers me. He's my husband. — Gish Jen

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib. — Gish Jen

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art. — Gish Jen

Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying. — Jessica Walter

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule. — Gish Jen

He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back - its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect. — Gish Jen

It's your body, we'll go slow if you want or as hard as you want. — Kim Karr

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure. — Gish Jen

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga. — Gish Jen

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director. — Johnny Depp

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is. — Mario Batali

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray. — Gish Jen

I look forward to the day the cross sits discarded beside the swastika as just another reminder of the dangers of blind faith. — Craig Smith