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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
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Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
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Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.
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No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.
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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength...strongest wind cannot be seen.
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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
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I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
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I have always known a thing before it happens.
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The life we receive is not always what we choose.
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I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.
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You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei
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I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
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I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
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I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
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I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
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