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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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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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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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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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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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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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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Confession is probably the most neglected area of personal prayer.
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I've done far too many things that I felt were going to be genius that weren't and I've done some things that I didn't think were going to be much that really connected with people. So expectations are left at the door. But hope exists all the time.
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Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?
