"I thought, "Wow, English is like magic." It not only shattered my voice, it changed me physiologically. I believed this for months ... There's magic in the language. I never fell out of the enchantment."

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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

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“a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.”

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“No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.”

Source : Gideon Haigh (2012). “On Warne”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
“When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.”
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“A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.”
“We actually need intelligent doubt and skepticism; they protect us against mistaken views and propaganda.”
“How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?”

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