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Amy Tan Quotes

In a second-class courtesan house, the courtship was much briefer. It could even be one night; usually it went on a little bit longer. But as the years went by, that period of courtship was shorter and shorter.

Amy Tan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Night House Years Little Even Much

Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.

Jhonen Vasquez

Me Back Go New Done Asking

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

Andrew Bird

Music Kind Everything Affect Fact

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.

Meg Whitman

Business Easy California Hard Got

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Robert M. Hutchins

Great Light Television Printing Been

The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it.

Matthew Bright

Funny School Think Fat Nothing Big

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

John Sununu

Past Government Situation Party Same

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

Amy Purdy

Learning I Am Strong Weaknesses How

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Spike Lee

Change Women People Black Cinema

And I have a couple swimsuit calendars I did that are coming out.

Trishelle Cannatella

Out Coming Swimsuit Did Couple

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

Tony Randall

Theatre Years Started Would National

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women Men Liberation

I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it.

Miguel Ferrer

Goodbye Saying Long Imagine Drums