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That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
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Amy Ruth Tan
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Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess. - Ch. 5
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
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My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
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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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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.
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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
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But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying
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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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