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Amy Tan Quotes

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1952

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Responsibility Culture Burden Writers

In TV films, it's nice to get out of town for six weeks or two months, whatever it is, do your thing, and you're out, ready for the next assignment.

You Ready Nice Two Whatever Out

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

World Looking Self Gender Lose Go

I like to produce work for specific places, and it is difficult to do repeat shows in the same space.

Maurizio Cattelan

Work Space Places Difficult Same

Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.

Hero People You Look Sometimes Much

My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.

Work Ideas Research Early First His

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

Care You Want Talk Explore Things

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Style Art Reflection Culture Simple

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

Positive Music Think Philosophy Been

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

Minoru Yamasaki

Education Building Done First Campus

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

Live People Someone You Person Want

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Luc de Clapiers

Failure Sometimes Virtue Us Our

Right now, I think I have time to be three things, in no particular order: a father, a husband, and a filmmaker. That's why I don't go out - I have no space for it. I feel like one of those main things would suffer.

Derek Cianfrance

Father Time Space Husband Think Go

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