Amy Tan Quotes
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
Quotes to Explore
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
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Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.
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It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.
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To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
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I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
