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Martin Yan

"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."

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Donna Grant

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

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Donna Grant

"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."

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Donna Grant

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

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Donna Grant

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

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Donna Grant

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

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Donna Grant

"Having a job does not mean living."

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Donna Grant

"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

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Donna Grant

"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."

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Donna Grant

"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

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Donna Grant

"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

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Martin Yan
"Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef."

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Martin Yan
"First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef."

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Martin Yan
"Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general."

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Martin Yan
"I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed."

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Martin Yan
"Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent."

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Martin Yan
"Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united."

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Martin Yan
"So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out."

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Martin Yan
"I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life."

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Martin Yan
"I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys."

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Martin Yan
"You don't have to show people how successful you are."

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