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““People are messy. Life gets messy. Things are not always going to work out perfectly just because you want them to.””

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My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every…

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Canada has become such a staging area for Chinese money.

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I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

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Hollywood is a whole other level of crazy. I've never met so many assistants who have assistants. It's a stratified society on its own.

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I grew up in a household where there were really, really strong matriarchal characters. I think that's true of many Asian households. People tend…

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I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia.

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I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

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I love Netflix and Amazon and watching movies on streamers as much as the next person.

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My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac.

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“Scientists talk about how we inherit health issues from our parents through our genes, but we also inherit this entire lineage of fear and…

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I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a…

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Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie…

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When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take…

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The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

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