"That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story ."

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Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

Andrew Lam

#Home Quotes #Identity Quotes #Floating Quotes

“Give your kids responsibility. Once outside, let them lead, who cares if you get lost; it might be the best trip you've ever had.”
“It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.”

Source : Veto message in The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson, vol. 3, (pp. 73 - 74), April 23, 1949.
“I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.76, Oxford University Press
“Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns of events, and great insights. Wonderful stories: each one is a trip!”
“You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work.”
“So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.”
“I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.”

Source : Source: www.vulture.com

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