Amy Tan Quotes

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Amy Tan

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Spike Lee really gave us a platform, men and women of color.

John David Washington

WomenMenColorMen And WomenUs

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.

John Turturro

WinSomeoneSometimesGamesMovement

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Steven Spielberg

I AmConflictAmericanAwareJewAm

I'd like to build a TV company for myself.

Rob Lowe

MyselfBuildCompanyLikeTV

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

Rony Abovitz

PeopleAmazingDoingYouWillNeat

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

Louis Prima

LeaderSchoolBrotherMeJazzBand

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.

Chris Ware

ThinkRealityKindPeculiarSure

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

Brett Somers

CultureFightEndLanguageYouKnow

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

Bruce McCulloch

TimeHatePeopleThinkSoundCruise

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

Anthony Horowitz

FatherStrangeVeryDistantAloof

Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

SoulMy SoulWayOutWeaponWould

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Twyla Tharp

FailureDifferentLessonsLearned

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