Jenny Zhang I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai. – Jenny Zhang American Quotes Chinese Quotes Enclave Quotes Grew Quotes Literally Quotes Lived Quotes Mother Quotes Person Quotes Shanghai Quotes Street Quotes As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things – sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When my family moved to a more affluent white neighbourhood, I started to see myself as ‘other’, this amorphous category. I didn’t even know what ‘not other’ was, but I knew I wasn’t it; I wasn’t what was normal. When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.
Carmen Busquets So I’m half deaf – and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody’s perfect, and I’m proud of my defects. – Carmen Busquets
Diego Luna You don’t want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone. – Diego Luna
Rod Blagojevich One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it’s hard to keep track of them. – Rod Blagojevich
Chris Wilder That was how I felt at non-league. I never looked at it then and said, ‘I want to be a Premier League manager one day’. I just wanted to do a good job and see where it could take me. – Chris Wilder
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