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It's so easy to be pretty and perfect.
CL
Easy
Pretty
Perfect
All our fans have great energy, and that's where we get our energy to perform. They know how to have fun with our music.
CL
Music
Great
Have Fun
Fans
Energy
Our
Our Music
Perform
Know
How
Get
Where
Fun
Love A$AP Rocky. I love his music, and I love his style.
CL
Love
Music
Style
His
Rocky
I have so many gay friends, and I love them so much because they're fun.
CL
Love
Gay
Because
Friends
Them
Much
Fun
Many
I love Grace Jones. She's everything.
CL
Love
Grace
Everything
She
I feel like an alien sometimes, where I don't feel like I belong anywhere.
CL
Sometimes
Alien
Feel
Like
Where
Anywhere
Belong
2NE1 was special because we each had different characters and styles, for individual tastes.
CL
Characters
Individual
Had
Because
Styles
Tastes
Different
Different Characters
Special
Each
I don't want a 'good' image.
CL
Good
Want
Image
I'm not the standard Asian girl.
CL
Girl
Asian
Standard
Some people want to tell me what's right for me, and I have to stick up for myself all of the time.
CL
Time
Myself
Me
People
Some People
Tell
Some
Stick
Up
Want
Right
I don't want to take too much responsibility, where I'm like, 'Oh, I'm representing Asia.'
CL
Too Much
Responsibility
Too
Take
Like
Oh
Representing
Where
Want
Asia
Much
I don't like to box myself into anything, because I also sing and I love to dance; I do everything.
CL
Love
Myself
Dance
Everything
Like
Sing
Also
Box
Because
Anything
I don't actually like calling myself a rapper. I'm more a performer.
CL
Myself
Rapper
More
Performer
Like
Calling
Actually
We're into discovering ourselves as 2NE1. Since all four of us are different, we inspire and push each other.
CL
Inspire
Other
Ourselves
Push
Since
Discovering
Different
Us
Each
Four
I love being called Baddest Female.
CL
Love
Female
Being
I love Karl Lagerfield. Riccardo Tisci - I love his work.
CL
Work
Love
His
Karl
Growing up, I listened to a lot of Queen and Lauryn Hill because of my dad. Those are songs that have messages.
CL
Queen
Those
Lauryn Hill
Songs
Hill
Messages
Because
Lot
Up
Listened
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
I know from my own experience that anything is possible, that there's nothing you can't do.
CL
You
Experience
Own
Nothing
Possible
My Own
Know
Anything
Anything Is Possible
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.
Chang-Rae Lee
Parents
Wish
Think
Recognised
Some
Writer
Part
Always
Idle
Wanted
One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.
Chang-Rae Lee
Experience
Writing
Mirrors
Road
Advantages
Ready
Quest
Story
Novel
We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.
Chang-Rae Lee
Me
Mother
Father
Rest
First
Year
Sister
Later
Way
Followed
Most
Year Later
Came
Arrived
Families
Did
Us
I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises.
Chang-Rae Lee
You
People
Writing
Think
Too
Write
Vein
Like
Comfortable
Exercises
Go
Get
Often
Short
Use
Novel
Assignments
My writing day follows my family's day. I get a good few hours in the mornings when the kids are out of the house. And I don't work at night any more. I like to see my family.
Chang-Rae Lee
Work
Good
Day
Family
Writing
Few
Kids
Out
See
Follows
More
Mornings
Like
Hours
House
Get
Any
Night
A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach, whether in structure or language or theme, to justify itself.
Chang-Rae Lee
Language
Approach
Angle
Comprehensive
Structure
Simply
Rendering
Itself
Whether
Realist
Justify
Social
Theme
Requires
Special
Even
Novel
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.
Chang-Rae Lee
War
Thinking
Everything
About
Write
Knows
Because
Without
Story
Hard
Iliad
I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.
Chang-Rae Lee
Art
Remember
Trouble
Would
Hated
Classes
Totally
Following
Something
Direction
Remember When
Taking
Weird
Doing
Get
Different
Assignments
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