J.H. Lee Quotes
As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.
It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice.
Whatever be the complex situations, the Indian team under Ganguly has moved to great heights. The fact of the matter is that Ganguly is determined to stay focused.
There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense
I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck
When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.
Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.
Kim: "What, a coffee? Hollie, I have some bad news. I hate you, okay?" Hollie: "You hate everyone, Kim." Kim: "You're one of everyone.
My readership seems to be the sensitive people, for the most part. Then there are the occasional fans who are like, "Ah, video games!"
Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.
I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.
I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.
Kim: Hey... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword. Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both?
I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again
I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.
I'm 25 and just trying to understand women. Obviously, that is a process that never ends.
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.
What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?
We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty.
The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.
There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.
When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.
I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."
All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.
I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror.
It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.
I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.
Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.
I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!
I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.
Im not the type of artist thats like, Lets go out and party and dance your life away! I think those artists are so cool, but I wanted meaning in my songs and they have messages.
I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.