Amy Tan Quotes
You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
Amy Tan
Quotes to Explore
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
B. B. King
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
Hansika Motwani
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
Kate Bush
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
Ian Mckellen
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
Jack Wild
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Fiona Shaw
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
Hanif Kureishi
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
Natasha Lyonne
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
Yo-Yo Ma
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
Larry Dixon
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A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.
G-Eazy
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.
Dean Devlin
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And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching
T. S. Eliot
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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.
Barack Obama
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You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
Amy Tan
