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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Endings don't have anything to do with what your movie is about. Now, there is an emotional climax, there's an emotional resolution that is 100 percent important. If I get that wrong, get your money back.
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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
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Pain is a great teacher. There's no future in hurting.
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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
