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Memory warps and stretches and shifts to fit the strictures of your life.
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Shifts
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Growing up, I fluctuated between wanting to modify my looks and embracing them.
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Embracing
Modify
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I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.
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Practical
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When I was in the second grade, I learned that I looked different from my classmates.
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Classmates
Grade
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It's so important for us to write complex, realistic women because that's what we are.
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Realistic
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Summer in Seoul is full of thick heat that clings to your neck, the back of your knees.
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Heat
Thick
Neck
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Words have power, and especially in the realm of beauty, how we speak about ourselves is important.
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Realm
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When I was almost two years old, my grandmother flew from Hongcheon, South Korea, to Flushing, Queens, to take care of me.
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Queens
Flew
South Korea
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When I heard that Hollywood was going to make Kevin Kwan's novel 'Crazy Rich Asians' into a movie, I was so ecstatic I nearly cried.
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Cried
Ecstatic
Asians
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Regret is something I wanted to write a lot about because once you make a decision, regret doesn't do anything except linger inside you.
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Regret
Linger
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As a Korean American, I grew up yearning to see actors that looked like me. On the rare occasions I saw an Asian celebrity, I adored them unflaggingly.
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Occasions
Yearning
Adored
Rare
Rare Occasions
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As a major feature film with Asian Americans in leading roles, 'Crazy Rich Asians' is important. We hope that this movie will be our 'Black Panther,' announcing to Hollywood that we are here, we belong, and we are ready for more.
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Announcing
Asian
Belong
Feature
Feature Film
Panther
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I'm not writing necessarily for an audience. I think about the audience at the end, once I have a complete book. But, when I'm writing it, I really need to feel like I'm learning, and I'm investigating something that I'm personally interested in.
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Investigating
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My grandmother raised me when I was little. I was born here, and my parents are immigrants; they needed someone to help take care of me because they were working a lot, so my grandmother came from Korea. So I'm very close with my grandmother, and I keep in touch with her a lot.
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Immigrants
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By the time I was a teen, I was an expert at scanning people's faces, always in search of eyes like mine. I devoured glossy magazines, ever mindful of the language we used to talk about beauty. The sections on how to apply makeup intrigued me most precisely because their audience never included me.
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Teen
Faces
Intrigued
Sections
Apply
By The Time
Devoured
Expert
Included
Mindful
Precisely
Search
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My grandmother lived under Japanese colonial rule until she was nine. Korea, still united and whole, was colonized in 1910. During this period of forced occupation, Japanese teachers taught Korean students how to view the world through their imperialist language, their history, their foreign tongue.
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Occupation
Tongue
Colonial
Forced
Japanese
Imperialist
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I don't know if it's unique, but I know many Korean American people of my generation who want to know about their grandparents' lives in Korea, but their family members won't tell them because it's too painful. But my grandmother is just a natural storyteller, and she very openly spoke about really difficult times in her life.
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Difficult Times
Family Members
My Generation
Life Family People
American People
Life Family Difficult
Openly
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