Amy Tan Quotes

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

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• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Father
  • Forever
  • Dance

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• I no longer limit myself.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Myself
  • Limit
  • Longer

• I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Men
  • Think
  • Doing

• Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Up
  • Design
  • Philosophy

• We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • High
  • Quality
  • Challenges

• On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Lost
  • Party

• I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Food

• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Comfort Zone

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sexy
  • Comfort
  • Too Much

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
  • Europe
  • Improve

• Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Important
  • Trees
  • Ecosystem

• I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Family
  • Fear
  • Cry

• You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

  

  Ed Harris
  • City
  • Day
  • Sleep

• I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Teacher
  • Years
  • Said

• So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Important
  • Me
  • Design

• When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!

  

  Allison Williams
  • Perfect
  • Amazing
  • Fall

• He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

  

  Jack Kroll
  • Nature
  • Joy
  • Changes

• I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

  

  Desiree Rogers
  • Up
  • House

• It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Hate
  • Joy