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“It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn't been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me.”
Source : "The Big Interview: Raising Kain". Interview with Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. November 4, 2011. 
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“That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.”
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“I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.”
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“At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.”
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“The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.”
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“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
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“my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.”
Source : Anchee Min (2005). “Empress Orchid”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.”
