64 Quotes by Anh Do

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    I love entertaining and I love storytelling.

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    When I was a kid in year one and year two, I had troubles with reading and writing, and my mum took me to St. Vinnies and we bought this big box of second-hand books, and she worked with me to turn that weakness around, you know.

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    Yeah, my mum's awesome. I love my mum so much.

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    A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you will have gone too far.

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    I'm not a megaphone sort of guy. I just let my art talk for itself.

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    When I was in primary school I was in a special needs group, which is the polite way of saying the dopey kids.

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    I've been to Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney and it's all barbed wire, it's like a big jail.

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    My family had to leave Vietnam because my uncles fought alongside the Aussies.

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    One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam. There were 40 of us on a 9-meter fishing boat. We were at sea for five days, a very perilous journey. We were attacked by pirates twice.

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