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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

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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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Caring
Motivation
Fate
Attitude
Inspirational
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Life

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...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
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How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.
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Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.
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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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We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
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I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
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And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose
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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
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The life we receive is not always what we choose.
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With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
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You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'
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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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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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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
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Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?
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It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.
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