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Said Quotes by Amy Tan
- You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation.…
- My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I…
- I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant…
- Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.
- Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows.…
- A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the…
- He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than…
- She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent…
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- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going… — David Axelrod
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a… — Russell Baker
- I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was… — Alec Baldwin
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a… — Christian Bale