Amy Chan Quotes
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.
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Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.
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I don't want to hang out with some guy I just like.
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Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.
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Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.
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If you want to know someone, just look at who they choose to spend their time with.
