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Amy Tan Quotes

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mother Happy Problems Thought Never

To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.

Men Logic Morality Minds Lead Laws

I'm super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.

Go Know Farmers Weekly Here Locally

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

Children Challenge Parents Rules

I'm aggressive, quite frankly, because Staten Island gets screwed all the time. And if I'm not aggressive, then I won't be successful. That's not being a bad boy. That's doing my job.

Time Job Doing Bad Bad Boy Island

I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.

Love Women Cooking Waiting People

I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.

Work Hard Work Lonely Hard Years

When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.

Competition Nobody Will Programming

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

Tea Theatre Envy Look Find Cards

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

Christian Cooke

Time You Always Degree Working Some

I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'

Work Love Music People Country Out

I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

Play Nurses Tend

What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process. Technology has really changed the game in terms of how people participate and what they decide to participate in.

Technology People Game Process Long

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