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Amy Tan Quotes

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Culture I Am American Values Know

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

Joe Scarborough

Today Enough Media Bad News Print

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

Day Sun Waiting Artist Sometimes

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Women Business Truth Aging Picture

One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.

Time Day Doing Trying Up Rescue

The John McCain tactic of praising Obama as a great American and great senator 'with whom I disagree' is a loser. You've got to call him out as what he is - a fraud and a disaster.

Great American Loser You Fraud Out

My mother was a gorgeous person with no vanity, but she was a really good soul.

Mary Steenburgen

Good Mother Soul Vanity Person She

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

Joseph Lancaster

Learning Good Great Society Morals

When we are in possession, tactically, he is the best coach in the world for me. He works hard, watches a lot of games, and prepares us really well. Guardiola has the feeling for gaping spaces, and he already had that as a player.

Best Me World Watches Feeling Games

In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.

Time School Hair Makeup High School

I use a lot of narration; I have a very prosaic style. I like to get you invested in the character first and do a lot of work in the first pages of each issue to try to re-establish things and keep the symbolism of a story very tucked beneath the surface.

Work Character Style Story You Try

In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.

Magic Become Things Other Lot

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth Ignorance Wrong Nothing Error

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