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Amy Tan Quotes

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Mother Age Day Remember Every Day

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

Life Sad People You Cinema Young

We just stuck to what we did best. Maybe that's why people plug into us and go 'They never change.' We're reliable. A bit like old shoes.

Change Shoes Best People Go Why

I find that with dance - and with the arts in general - because I want to grow in my performance, I have to come face to face with my own personal challenges.

Dance Challenges Performance Face

That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

I Am Me World Messed Up Three Say

There is very little love in this world, and if you give love, you will get it back.

Love World You Back Will Little

When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.

Friend Best School Me Best Friend

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Lorraine Toussaint

Opportunity Art Think You Vanity

You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.

You Say Nothing Inheritance Started

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

Time End Someone React Talk Answers

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

Experience Space Long True Geometry

Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title.

Age World New Become Singer Poet

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

Man War You Him Prisoner Who

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