A Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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Born: 1944

If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go.

Simon Schama

When someone asks you the question 'Are you ticklish' it doesn't matter if you say yes or no, cause they're going to touch you. If someone asks if you're ticklish and you don't want to be touched you should something like 'I have diarrhea, now don't touch me cause you'll make it come out... and yes I'm very ticklish'.

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Matt Riddle

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Helen Mirren

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Elizabeth Wurtzel

If someone asks me where I bought something I’m wearing, I will usually say I don’t remember.

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Alexander Chee

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Amanda Fuller

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Leslie Fiedler

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Andy Ihnatko

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Neve Campbell

I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

Salman Rushdie

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

Joan Didion

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

George Orwell

My poor mother. Every time I get a job she asks, "Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?" and I say, "You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom."

Luke Bracey

My poor mother. Every time I get a job, she asks, 'Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?' and I say, 'You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom.'

Luke Bracey

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