Michelle Yeoh quote: "I gathered as much reading material about Aung San Suu Kyi and about Burma as I could. And I read every article and every book she had written. I also had 200 hours of footage of her to watch. I tried to discover who were her heroes and where he desire and strength to pursue democracy in a non-violent fashion came from."

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I...
ANGELINA JOLIE

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

I was struck by Suu Kyi's warmth and generosity. No matter how petite she looks, she exudes amaz...
MICHELLE YEOH

Playing Aung San Suu Kyi was a journey in itself. She represents many things for many people and for...
MICHELLE YEOH

I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her im...
SHERYL SANDBERG

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI

I remember the strength of her body writhing inside the velvet. And, suddenly, the velvet was gone a...
KATHLEEN VALENTINE

But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she la...
ALEX FLINN

I never thought I’d ever leave Zerc. But after knowing Cricket, it occurred to me that I had no re...
ASH GRAY

When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of m...
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ

Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai...
CASSANDRA CLARE

I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a cro...
JOANNA RUSS

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT)

I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago...
TIMOTHY GARTON ASH

She had followed me out to Hollywood from St. Paul. I was living in a boarding house, and she had a ...
PETER GRAVES

Aung San Suu Kyi's late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony's, Oxf...
ALISTAIR HORNE

We shall miss Leopardstar. I remember her from all the way back when I was an apprentice in ThunderC...
ERIN HUNTER

I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivi...
STEPHENIE MEYER

The pattern of detaining, releasing and detaining Aung San Suu Kyi is symbolic of the one step forwa...
DEBBIE STOTHARD

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into ...
RISA LAVIZZO-MOUREY

She had me in stitches most of the time, while commiserating over the 'joys' of operating a theater....
JULANE SULLIVAN

I worked with Michelle Yeoh on my last film, 'Far North,' and her partner is Jean Todt; at t...
ASIF KAPADIA

When a handful of students came to RBG in 1970 and asked her to teach the first-ever Rutgers class o...
IRIN CARMON

She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a t...
CASSANDRA AUSTEN

I knew she came out with 31 points last night and I had to 'D' it up on her tonight. I was working a...
BECCA MCARDLE

I liked it.

I liked her.

And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. ...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

[Christy] joined some other girls from her floor who had gathered in the den to watch THe Princess B...
ROBIN JONES GUNN

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn&#...
JASON ALDEAN

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stor...
FRAZIER GLENN MILLER

I think I realized my parents' relationship was special when I had my first girlfriend, and she ...
BRETT YOUNG

I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and R...
REBECCA STEAD

He missed you just as I did. He worried about you just as I worried. He looked for you. Tried to fin...
SARAH MACLEAN

Once as Nadia sat on the steps of a building reading the news on her phone across the street from a ...
MOHSIN HAMID

It's not about the wins with her. She envelops every definition of what you want a coach to be. I wa...
BOB DEFELICE

Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out ...
B.J. NOVAK

If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.'...
DAN BROWN

They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exact...
MAILE MELOY

It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very speci...
EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read u...
TAYLOR SWIFT

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
GARY VAYNERCHUK

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate abo...
KATE BECKINSALE

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard ...
W. P. KINSELLA

Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her,...
BEBE REXHA

From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her mor...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN

What are you doing here?" she asked as she slowed from a jog to a walk and placed her hands on her h...
KIMBERLY DERTING

When I had her as a teacher all of the kids in her class ended up calling her mom. She had this way ...
JENNIFER WOOD

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t...
BETTY SMITH

While I was on the academic sabbatical of 1956-1957, I also entered into marriage. Alicia had gradua...
JOHN NASH

And because she was young, and so damn clever and amusing and wonderful, wherever she made her home,...
SARAH J. MAAS

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy,...
ERNEST GAINES

I had it figured out who needed to finish where, and I got it wrong. I lost a car somewhere and figu...
KIRK SHELMERDINE

When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had no...
DAVID SEDARIS

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was signific...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

In my defense, I love the book in a postmodern kind of way where I've always sensed that it contains...
CAROLINE KEPNES

When she was 4 1/2, she asked for three straight months if she could take skating lessons, ... I did...
ANGELA DAVIS

Everyone was talking about her and telling me I had to check out Donny's daughter, ... I had a gig i...
MARCUS MILLER

Every moment of every day, she had fought to keep his face out of her mind, and his voice out of her...
AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I fel...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

She still hasn't had a chance to have much training yet. She used to run the 100 and the 200 but I r...
CARL CHANCELLOR

I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet corne...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later ...
DENIS JOHNSON

She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I c...
JOHN GREEN

If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?
JOHN GREEN

I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't...
ILONA ANDREWS

I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
ERRI DE LUCA

He felt she could be unpredictable and possibly violent. At one point, she indicated to him that she...
STEVEN LANDES

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to...
LEWIS CARROLL

Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced i...
IAN FLEMING

I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, ...
ROBERT BLAKE

What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ...
LISA J. SHULTZ

I told a girl it would bring her luck, so she patted him and returned about three hours later saying...
DAFYDD JAMES

She is a great player by every means. When she was driving in, I had good help and I stayed down on ...
ANDEE WHITAKER

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was readin...
BARBARA CORCORAN

She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she ha...
LAURA JOPLIN

She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentl...
JANE AUSTEN

I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, ...
UPTON SINCLAIR

Women.
Lord God, I used to follow these girls.
THey would come at me, those girls who wer...
DOROTHY ALLISON

I asked her how much she had to drink, and she replied that she had a couple of beers.
BILL KELLY

I thought she had caught it and then I looked back at her and saw she was going to throw it to first...
MALLORY RUHL

I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children"....
RICHARD WRIGHT

The young woman had read a good many novels, and
she had seen a good many films; this education...
MAURICE RENARD

After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a ...
ANDREW WILSON

Did I really read every single book in the school? My mother maintains I did. Maybe I just told the ...
ANDY MILLER

She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so...
JOHN GREEN

I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave...
SUE MONK KIDD

I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by th...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT

I think it was my way of making her look beautiful every day and from the moment her hair was long e...
DEENA EBRIGHT

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of ...
CHASTITY BONO

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of ...
CHAZ BONO

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she ...
STEPHEN COLBERT

Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD

He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking...
PAULA BRACKSTON

I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS

I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone wit...
ROBERT WILSON

You are so much more than I bargained for,” I confessed, which gained her attention. “I knew I w...
C.A. HARMS

As she was speaking in a loud voice, I came out of my room and listened to her. She told me about wh...
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