Amy Chua Quotes
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
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I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.
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Even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.
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I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream.
