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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I started out doing musicals.
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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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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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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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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.
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Was a giant who changed the history of the world. I was in China during the old regime, when it was full of moneylenders and slavery. He changed all that.
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Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
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If you want to know someone, just look at who they choose to spend their time with.
