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Amy Tan Quotes

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Parents Me Expectations High

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Envy Watch Only Who Many Few

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

Difficult Get Made Movie Incredibly

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

John Henrik Clarke

People You Oppression First Convince

I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.

Government Believe Always Clear Made

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

God Children Words Looking You More

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Soren Kierkegaard

Love Beloved Alter Does Itself

There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.

People Amazing Small You Lose Gain

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

Confidence Great People Democracy

I am a junk food eater.

Anthony Scaramucci

Food I Am Junk Food Junk Am Eater

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

Dog Good Morning School Me Weather

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Great Ambition Wings Nothing Minds

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

Richard Linklater

Eyes World Rich Everyone See Lives

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