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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."
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"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure."
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"Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong."
Accident
"I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know."
History
"However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all."
Thought
"A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding."
Men
"The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like."
Love
"Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions."
Appearance
"Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him."
Father
"There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive."
Canada
"Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time."
Time
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