Amy Tan Quotes
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I would love to do some theater.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.
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I'm not a negative person.
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Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It's basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.
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The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.
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I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
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The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.
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Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.
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I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama is easier for them because everything they've done is from pain anyway.
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But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.
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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
