Amy Tan Quotes

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Amy Tan

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GoodArtMyselfWritingAesthetic

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

Joan Jett

GodMyselfThinkPersonKindJeans

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Anna Deavere Smith

WorkHard WorkHeartListeningYou

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

Angie Everhart

LifeDayThinkingFeelFatMy Life

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were.

Sugar Ray Leonard

WalkThinkSurvivalLookStopTrash

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

Trent Reznor

DaySongEnd Of The DayEndYouWay

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

Tom Wopat

LiveMusicExperienceAudienceSee

The '90s was a great period for the fans that were collecting at that time. Comics sold at an all-time high and reached the largest audience in our modern age, and the energy in our business was fantastic. Any bad feelings from fans of that era were a result of the poor delivery of the product we sold them.

Rob Liefeld

BusinessAgeGreatTimeEnergyBad

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

Russell Means

TruthMyselfHumanWeakTellUsed

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

Romesh Gunesekera

AnxietyYouNostalgiaOverGetMost

More than 90 percent of criminal cases are never tried before a jury. Most people charged with crimes forfeit their constitutional rights and plead guilty.

Michelle Alexander

PeopleGuiltyMoreNeverJuryTried

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

Louise Brown

ConfidentDownWillEveryoneDancing

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

Bob Mayer

JobWritingSaidAlwaysBeing

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