| Iris Chang |  It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
Iris Chang |
| Iris Chang | It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
Iris Chang |
| Iris Chang | The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang |
| Iris Chang | There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
Iris Chang |
| Iris Chang | There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
Iris Chang |
| Iris Chang | When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
Iris Chang |
| irreversible | Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
Monica Bellucci
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| Irvine Welsh | I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
Irvine Welsh |
| Irvine Welsh | I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Irvine Welsh |
| Irvine Welsh | I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
Irvine Welsh |
| Irving Babbitt | The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Irving Babbitt |
| Irving Thalberg | The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
Irving Thalberg |
| Irwin Shaw | Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw |
| Isaac Asimov | I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov |
| Isaac Barrow | Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
Isaac Barrow |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Isaac Hanson | Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
Isaac Hanson |
| Isaac Hanson | I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
Isaac Hanson |
| Isaac Hayes | Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
Isaac Hayes |
