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Amy Tan Quotes

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

Amy Tan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1952

Topics

Mother Eyes Light You Routine New

I think what we have to do is speak about the issues and speak about my record.

Joe Garcia

Speak Think Issues I Think About

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

Johan Huizinga

Wisdom Wealth Security Heaven Earth

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

Jeremy Renner

Growing Up Growing Athlete Up

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

Johnny Cash

People Me You Country Never Wild

I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing.

Rory Kinnear

Myself Play Whatever Anything Seen

I take care of myself so I don't feel insecure about my body.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Myself Care Take Care Feel Body

Once a month, try something you don't think you'd be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

Dianna Agron

Good Happy Think You Find Try

Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house strewn with rubbish.

Craig Brown

Good House Productive Been Rubbish

I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be...' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.

Constance Wu

Know Seriously Emotional Pretty Knew

Looking back, all I can say is that the meeting with Bush was one of the most disgusting experiences in my life.

Cindy Sheehan

Life Looking Back Looking My Life

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

Bradley Whitford

Character Yourself Feet You Dirty

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Bob Hope

Age Show Middle Your Starts Around