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Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture.

~Amy Hill

Topics: Ages Art Been Compared Culture Drama Every Forms Inaccessible Often Other Overly Part Performance Performance Art Prefer Something Storytelling Think Thought Through Us

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As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and culture. This includes difficult steps, but they are necessary to position Microsoft for future growth and industry leadership.

~Amy Hood

Topics: Action Bold Culture Decisive Difficult Evolve Future Growth Industry Leadership Microsoft Necessary Organization Our Position Steps Taking Team

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When I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted. Whether or not it actually happens, it changes a culture, and that's part of what we're trying to do here.

~Amy Klobuchar

Topics: Actually Changes Could Culture Follow Get Had Happens Here Hot Issues Know Loved Made Magnet Parents Part Prosecuted Prosecutor Putting Refrigerator Rules Saying Trying Up Wall Whether You

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I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Am American American Values Chinese Chinese Culture Culture Emotional Emotional Level Know Level Means Values I Am

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At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Always American American Culture Anything Based Beginning Beliefs Career Chinese Chinese Culture Confusion Culture Different Different Beliefs Emotional Family Family History Felt Hers Hesitant History Knew Know Mother Nothing Our Related Talking Which Writer Writing

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I went to an exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum about Shanghai, about how courtesans had been influential in bringing western culture to Shanghai. I bought a book and in it saw this striking group of women in a photograph called 'The Ten Beauties of Shanghai'.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Art Asian Beauties Been Book Bought Bringing Culture Exhibition Francisco Group Had How Influential Museum Photograph San Saw Shanghai Striking Ten Western Western Culture Women

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

~Amy Tan

Topics: Burden Culture Placing Represent Responsibility Writers

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I read academic books on courtesan culture at the turn-of-the century in Shanghai such as Gail Hershatter's 'The Gender of Memory'. The diaries were mostly in the form of letters from courtesans to a lover who had disappeared or taken their savings.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Academic Books Century Culture Diaries Disappeared Form Gender Had Letters Lover Memory Mostly Read Savings Shanghai Taken Were Who

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I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself upset that my parents couldn't help me understand this new culture, that it was up to me to interpret for them as well as myself.

~An Na

Topics: Cider Common Common Things Culture Figure Finding Help Interpret Learning Like Me Myself New Out Parents Remember Them Things Trying Understand Up Upset Well Words I Remember

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I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

~Ana Ortiz

Topics: Available Child Culture Diversity Family Here Lots Much New New York Place Raise Really See Things Think Whole Wonderful Wonderful Place York I Think

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