"Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything."

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Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

Amy Chua

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“Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.”

Source : Song: Against The Wind, Album: Against the Wind, 1980
“It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool.”
“Art is theftâ€) and Igor Stravinsky (â€œLesser artists borrow, great artists stealâ€), Iâ€™ve always stolen from the people I admire â€“ not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites AndrÃ© Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: â€œEverything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
“I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy.”
“...I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere in the realm of ideas. I felt that I had within me an undeveloped fount of ideas. I did not know exactly what my ideas were, but whatever they were I wanted to convert people to them.”
“Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.”

Source : Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.”

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