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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate.
— Amy Tan
I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.
— Amy Tan
We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
— Amy Tan
This is beauty ... and you are beauty, and love is beauty and we are beauty. We are divine, unchanged by time.
— Amy Tan
Run for the door if a guy has too much gel in his hair and is too tan and it's not even summer.
— Ryan Hansen
When you are in control of your inner world, then you are in control of your outer world.
— Enoch Tan
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
— Amy Tan
B'ao ku ishe o tan When there is life, there is still hope.
— Baba Ifa Karade
I saw Styx in sixth grade. I loved Tommy Shaw. I got sneakers like him - he wore these tan Nikes.
— Louise Post
When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
— Amy Tan
For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.
— Aziz Ansari
You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.
— Amy Tan
Since I'm not dead yet I can talk back.
— Amy Tan
bad, how likely is it to come
— Amy Tan
The Doppler Effect of Communication": There is always distortion between what a speaker says and what a listener wants it to mean. "The
— Amy Tan
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
— Amy Tan
Calling MacKenzie a mean girl is an understatement. She's a cobra with hoop earrings, blond hair extensions, and a spray-on tan.
— Rachel Renee Russell
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
— Amy Tan
One day we are a hero, another day we are a zero. Without me, Cardiff would have gone bust. Because of my investment, we got promoted.
— Vincent Tan
Our demons are friends,
— Tan Redding
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
— Amy Tan
But my father's faith, as I said, was absolute. Through God's prayer he could be granted exactly what he wanted.
— Amy Tan
Seeing him again had been a gut punch.
— Tan Redding
If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last.
— Amy Tan
I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.
— Amy Tan
I won't be what I'm not.
-Jing-mei — Amy Tan
-Jing-mei — Amy Tan
It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
— Amy Tan
There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
What use for? asks my mother, jiggling the table with her hand. You put something else on top, everything fall down.
— Amy Tan
All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me.
-Ying Ying — Amy Tan
-Ying Ying — Amy Tan
I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.
— Lisa Snowdon
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.
— Amy Tan
The problem with happy endings," Tan'elKoth said, "is that nothing is ever truly over.
— Matthew Woodring Stover
I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in the U.K.
— Vincent Tan
I like getting a tan, so if I'm lying on the beach, I want to get as much skin out as possible.
— Eliza Doolittle
Anthony Robbins quotes is, "What's talked about is a dream. What's envisioned is exciting. What's planned becomes possible. What's scheduled is real.
— Shirley Tan
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
— Amy Tan
Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.
— Amy Tan
I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
— Anna Paquin
What we think, do, and pay attention to changes the structure and functions of our brains!
— Chade-Meng Tan
Your only shame is to have shame.
— Amy Tan
From personal adversity comes great art
— Tan Redding
On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.
— Tan Twan Eng
We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
— Amy Tan
Our children belong to God. We're only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected.
— Scarlet Wilson
The things one had to do in life sometimes had nothing to do with what was fun or convenient.
— Amy Tan
Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?
— Shaun Tan
For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.
— Tan Twan Eng
A moment is not the same as time.
— Amy Tan
Later they will remember those moments with you. But they are not memories of you, but the feeling they were immortal because you made them gods.
— Amy Tan
You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei — Amy Tan
-An-mei — Amy Tan
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
— Amy Tan
I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.
— Dov Davidoff
entire cottage industry centered just on Aritomo-sensei,
— Tan Twan Eng
I plan to work my utmost for Singaporeans, whatever be their political affiliation. The presidency is above politics.
— Tony Tan
Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.
— Jenny Eclair
I'm not saying fate happens without blame. but when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.
— Amy Tan
I ask myself, How can I relax? How can I let go of everything that's happened? You need complete trust to do that.
— Amy Tan
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
— Amy Tan
Surfing is not my strong point. And ... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.
— Lori Loughlin
AI guess that's what happens when you have no Botox, make-up or fake tan. You have expressions instead.
— Sophie Kinsella
Brian organised for the body to be flown back.
— Jolene Tan
The young have hopes and dreams, while the old hold the remains of them in their hands and wonder what has happened to their lives.
— Tan Twan Eng
I think 'The Road' is a good example of a book everyone should read, but I wouldn't recommend it to young kids.
— Shaun Tan
I can only teach you the way, that is all. What you do with it and what it does to you, those are beyond my influence.
— Tan Twan Eng
Whatever initiatives we launch, we must always put the interests of Singaporeans and Singapore first.
— Tony Tan
I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror.
— Amy Tan
I believe this Emperador Distillers investment in Whyte & Mackay is good for the Philippines as a whole, not only beneficial to our business.
— Andrew Tan
Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.
— Lea Michele
Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?
— Amy Tan
I did not lose myself all at once.
— Amy Tan
CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG ... NAW EAT NO YAM ... NO STEAM FISH ... NOR NO GREEN BANANA
BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA.. — Sean Paul
BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA.. — Sean Paul
It was sad and beautiful knowledge that a person cannot be found elsewhere but in his own spirit.
— Amy Tan
No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you.
— Vincent Tan
I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
— Amy Tan
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
— Amy Tan
Was this part of the process of growing up, that we finally noticed the people closest to us in a different, clearer light?
— Tan Twan Eng