"My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of."

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Amy Tan

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“I have a deep respect and love for these tiny humans, and I hope to convey in my images a measure of the beauty that exists in all children.”
“I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.”

Source : "Dominic Cooper Talks the Scope of the Film, Finding the Tone, Returning for Captain America 2, and More on the Set of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 13, 2012.
“I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.”
“Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.”
“Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.”
“Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.”
“People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will.”
“Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.”

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