Iris Chang
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most ... IRIS CHANG Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class d... IRIS CHANG Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces. IRIS CHANG It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history. IRIS CHANG Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe. IRIS CHANG Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else... IRIS CHANG The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments o... IRIS CHANG If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an eco... IRIS CHANG It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out... IRIS CHANG For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's... IRIS CHANG Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerou... IRIS CHANG We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also t... IRIS CHANG I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent ... IRIS CHANG It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more a... IRIS CHANG When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. ... IRIS CHANG Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in ... IRIS CHANG I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. IRIS CHANG I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself,... IRIS CHANG There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engag... IRIS CHANG They probably do have an Asian Barbie. IRIS CHANG I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills. IRIS CHANG Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an... IRIS CHANG Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. IRIS CHANG There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off chil... IRIS CHANG There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people star... IRIS CHANG The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion. IRIS CHANG The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are th... IRIS CHANG Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicin... IRIS CHANG These episodes of racism occur in cycles. IRIS CHANG Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minu... IRIS CHANG I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. IRIS CHANG Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an... IRIS CHANG The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s... IRIS CHANG Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years. IRIS CHANG As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. IRIS CHANG I'm far from being perfect but I've learned to recognize my mistakes and to be open for a change IRIS You keep thinking of someone while doing important jobs, you love him/her. IRIS IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writ... IRIS JOHANSEN I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' wr... IRIS JOHANSEN The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound... IRIS JOHANSEN I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader. IRIS JOHANSEN After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy...... IRIS JOHANSEN I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most peop... IRIS DEMENT If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music prov... IRIS DEMENT I've always written about things that cause me to feel something. IRIS DEMENT My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! IRIS DEMENT Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come rea... IRIS DEMENT Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had. IRIS DEMENT Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in... IRIS DEMENT I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result o... IRIS DEMENT Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up w... IRIS DEMENT Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to... IRIS DEMENT I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and other... IRIS DEMENT I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else. IRIS DEMENT Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. 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SCHARMEL IRIS IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL It took the tenacity and spirit of thousands and thousands of women who worked in an unrelenting way... IRIS NELSON IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance. IRIS JOHANSEN IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows. DONNIE IRIS IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL The lights are all out everywhere. IRIS CHENAULT IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereb... IRIS JOHANSEN IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL ...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L... IRIS ANTHONY IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ... IRIS JOHANSEN People were worried; they thought we were going to go to nuclear war when there was a conflict with ... IRIS WEINSHALL We find stuff all the time, but what's sort of eerie about this is that this is a bridge that thousa... IRIS WEINSHALL In attempting to minimize congestion, perhaps we were more cautious than we should have been. IRIS WEINSHALL It's not like we're putting this on eBay. IRIS WEINSHALL It's not uncommon for New Yorkers to walk a mile a day. IRIS WEINSHALL Little Charlie was delivered by a C-section and not expected to live. I'm a widow with no children .... IRIS TANNER I don't know if someone thought they were rescuing them from a hot car or what. I'm offering a rewar... IRIS TANNER It's very basic -- look for a dumpster that has stuff in it, climb in, and see what you can find. IRIS PEPPAR It's fun, it thwarts capitalism, and it pays directly in useful stuff instead of having that useless... IRIS PEPPAR We want to let people shop in peace and dignity. I don't want to be standing over people telling the... IRIS PEPPAR
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