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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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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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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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.
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More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.
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We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
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If you're reading this...
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Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?
