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Amy Tan Quotes

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Mother People Think Understand She

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

Structure Always See Up Going Get

I married my best friend, and I couldn't ask for anything more. He's an unbelievable person.

Friend Best Best Friend Person More

There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more than female entrepreneurs... male entrepreneurs getting several strikes against them before they're kind of let go, whereas female entrepreneurs, it's kind of one strike and you're out.

Culture You Go Strike Kind More

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

Funny Reason Nerdy Like Some Guys

It is understandable that the Fed injects cash to avoid the collapse of the stock market, but basically it is bad policy for monetary authorities to intervene to save speculators from bankruptcy. This is not their role.

Stock Market Bad Policy Role Market

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.

Soleil Moon Frye

Space Me Mom Believe Short Enough

Since ballet has such a solid classical framework, everything is supposed to be a very specific way, so you learn to look at things with an eye towards perfection. But in acting, it isn't always necessarily good to be like that - really magical things can happen when it's unexpected and messy.

Good Perfection Eye Learn You Look

I'm a gentleman.

Regardless of any title I'll ever hold, the most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.

Job Important Hold The Most Important

In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country.

Together Society Country Europe Miss

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.

Time People Wolf You Person Boy

Thank God my life is normal. I work hard to make it normal. My husband and I don't want Hollywood drama. I go to the market and do the dishes. I'm not treated differently because I work on TV.

Life Work God Work Hard Husband

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