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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

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others. — Amy Tan

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten. — Amy Tan

There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand. — Gabrielle Union

This is beauty ... and you are beauty, and love is beauty and we are beauty. We are divine, unchanged by time. — Amy Tan

Lack of clarity is a writer's truth. — Amy Tan

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots. — Amy Tan

Animals represent the abstract notion of acceptance. Living with these funny creatures - you kind of have to accept them. It's like a test in a way. — Shaun 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

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want. — Amy Tan

Dubya! What in Tarnation!? Why, I'll tan yer hide fer this!So, what's sex like after fifty, anyway? — George W. Bush

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

Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden. — Amy Tan

How funny to see the foreigner in a farmer's work hat, like a fish that has put on clothes. Around — Amy Tan

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

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

The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart's memory but love itself? — Tan Twan Eng

Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player! — Bill Fitch

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

He has always been politely indifferent. But what's the Chinese word that means indifferent because you can't see any differences? — 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 have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was. — Amy Tan

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

Our demons are friends, — Tan Redding

If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we'd all be happier. It's hard to be down about anything knee deep in the sand. — Crystal Woods

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

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

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. — 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

It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated. — Monica Seles

There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan. — Jeffrey Eugenides

He simply translated what was in LuLing's heart: her better intentions, her hopes. — 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

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

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. — Amy Tan

Why did I need to see someone else's bad luck? To feel glad it was not mine? To scare myself into thinking it still might be? — Amy Tan

We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. — Amy Tan

The problem with happy endings," Tan'elKoth said, "is that nothing is ever truly over. — Matthew Woodring Stover

If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan. — Joe Mantegna

It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do. — David Cook

I swim every other day. That's my exercise. — Andrew Tan

When you touch a man's nostalgia, he is yours. — Amy Tan

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. — Amy Tan

I resented the easy supposition of all's well that ends well. — Amy Tan

But how can anyone truly understand another's suffering unless he has felt the wound being made and the moment trust died? — Amy Tan

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. — Amy Tan

I always wear bronzer because I love the way my skin looks when it's tan. — Lauren Conrad

Get your filthy paws off my son, feet pue tan! Cherise — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world. — Chade-Meng Tan

Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy. — Adrian Tan

It's as if they take all our questions and offer them straight back: Who are you? Why are you here? What do you want? — Shaun Tan

Even though we all know the facts, it's hard to resist the lure of a tan. — Jane Krakowski

It begins to rain softly, raising goose-pimples on the pond's skin. — Tan Twan Eng

Sunblock! I don't like to tan my face because it's bad for wrinkles, — Lady Gaga

I can tan. I get tannish. It's not really tan, it's tannish. That kind of color. — Alan Tudyk

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. — Amy Tan

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me. — Amy Tan

Being able to restrain my emotions isn't a great victory - it's the pitiful proof of lost love. — Amy Tan

It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer. — Peter Andre

A moment is not the same as time. — Amy Tan

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. — 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

What nature of being are we that even our dreams can be compromised? — Alex Tan

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 have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan. — Nicole Richie

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

I feel happy when I look at my grandson, who is 10 months old. That relaxes me. — Andrew Tan

Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia. — Tan Redding

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

Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so. — Amy Tan

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. — Amy 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

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you. — Vincent Tan

Whatever initiatives we launch, we must always put the interests of Singaporeans and Singapore first. — Tony Tan

The French have a very deep knowledge of Islam in many areas, and we can exchange views. — 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

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

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 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

Too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow. — 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

I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be? — Pearl Tan

One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models. — Andrew Tan

Those were the reasons we both knew how deep love was, the shared pain that would outlast any pain we caused each other. — 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