Amy Tan Quotes
You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
Amy Tan
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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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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
Jackie Collins
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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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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
Ian Frazier
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I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.
Laurie Graham
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Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.
Clyde Edgerton
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A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour,
Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within
His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,
Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog
Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade.
Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws,
No more sits listening by his den, but steals
Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field,
And crops its juicy-blossoms.
William Cullen Bryant
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Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
Bill Gates
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You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
Amy Tan
