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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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Personal Development
"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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Personal Development
"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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Personal Development
"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth."
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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
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"The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone."
Art
"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."
Family
"The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break."
Art
"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."
Fire
"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another."
Life
"Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far."
Balance
"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."
Difference
"Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next."
Seasons
"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."
Building
"People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city."
People
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