Amy Tan Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no international trade, but it will be nothing like the conveyer belt from China to Wal-Mart that we've known the last few decades. And the prospects for conflict are very, very high.
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I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
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The battle for women's rights has been largely won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone for ever. And I hope they are. I hated those strident tones that you still hear from some Women's Libbers'.
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I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.
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Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?
