Iris Apfel
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KENNETH APFEL I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just... KENNETH APFEL It's a good financial planning tool, ... We're hoping it will help people understand what Social Sec... KENNETH 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. It doesn't feel tru... IRIS DEMENT And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long. IRIS DEMENT 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 After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau... 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 IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH 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 IRIS MURDOCH The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion. IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams. SCHARMEL IRIS IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH It took the tenacity and spirit of thousands and thousands of women who worked in an unrelenting way... IRIS NELSON IRIS MURDOCH The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are th... IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance. IRIS JOHANSEN I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows. DONNIE IRIS IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH The lights are all out everywhere. IRIS CHENAULT IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicin... IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH 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 IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years. IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereb... IRIS JOHANSEN IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH ...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L... IRIS ANTHONY IRIS MURDOCH As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. IRIS CHANG 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
Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked... 
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although ... 
My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. 
It's completely clear to me she was insane at the time of the murder, ... She was, frankly, psychoti... 
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my broth... 
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol... 
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... 
My mom is big on moisturizer and water. She always reminds me to drink a lot of water and wear sungl... 
I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comf... 
Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. ... 
I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an... 
She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the mome... 
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... 
My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her co... 
My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we... 
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph ... 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
What was she like?"
Of course we did other things too. We walked. We talked. We rode bikes.
I hate you.'
She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and... 
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... 
My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolw... 
The one thing I always knew about my mother was that she always loved me, ... And I give her tremend... 
When I was growing up, my mother taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other - there was no roo... 
But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M... 
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... 
I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom woul... 
A very dirty little fellow came in from playing in the yard and asked his
mother, "Who am I?" Ready... 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... 
I have to be seen to be believed. 
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... 
I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During th... 
Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That... 
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking... 
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to ... 
She was in me, in my blood, invading every cell in my body. She was the one I wanted. She was the on... 
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself. 
You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there'... 
I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity. 
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. 
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. 
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitu... 