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Quotes By author - Starting with A - Amy Tan
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There are 95 quotes for the author Amy Tan
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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
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That was what achievement was: the plateaus you always had to maintain, the highest standards, the 'A's.' People would give you the feedback and tell you if you had done the achievement.
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It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself.
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And so she was very proud, because she measured success in terms of money, which is what I started to do as well. My goal then, became to increase the amount of money that I made each month.
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It's very gothic to have a little boy killing a giant, somebody's head being served on a platter, dead people being raised out of the grave.
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Kwan comes strictly from my imagination, from that world of yin that I write about. I don't know anybody in my life like Kwan, although I feel Kwan-like characters all round me.
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And she said, 'It's not too late; tell the world, tell the world what happened to her.' And I take her mandate to be the one that is in my heart, the one that I should follow.
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I still did a lot of things out of anger for a while. I was lucky that I met a very kind person, a very good person and that person is now my husband. He is a very sweet man.
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My mother, though, got equally angry at the relative and said, 'For so many years, I carried this shame on my back, and my mother suffered, because she couldn't say anything to anybody.'
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No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
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