Amy Tan Quotes

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

Amy Tan

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PoetryOutLikeReadLoudEmily

The most frustrating thing is that I want to always buy the best thing, the thing that does the most stuff.

Jerry Zucker

BestWantAlwaysBuyStuffMost

You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.

John H. Reagan

FishingPeopleLawYouPayContent

You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.

Robert Gottlieb

LifeWomenWomanDeathFateHobby

I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I would be the documenter of meetings, sometimes doing limited business analysis. I began to become quite cynical about how the world works. It works on ineptitude and inefficiency and a kind of passiveness.

Jeff Vandermeer

WorkBusinessWorldMeetingsDoing

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

Jeff Lemire

KnowDoneWriteGutStoriesUntil

I remember going to see those Adrian Lyne films when I was going to see movies in the nineties, and I was jealous he wasn't working at New Line.

Michael De Luca

JealousRememberNewMoviesSeeHe

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

Amber Heard

RomanticI CanOldWatchSitFilm

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Stephen Jay Gould

TimeBiologyNaturalBeenOddAbout

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

Shonda Rhimes

WinningSaidAlwaysOne ThingThing

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

Martin Scorsese

HeartPeopleResolveOutLeaveStay

Where there are difficulties, there will always be opportunities.

Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber

OpportunitiesWillDifficultiesWhere

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

Jason Alexander

LifeCreateNumbersCrisisWill

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