Amy Tan Quotes
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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.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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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.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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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.
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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.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.
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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
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Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
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The female in question was a sloppy pest
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Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.
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You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
