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[His posse of longtime pals provides another outlet.] They carry on like your classic 'boys will be boys,' ... knows who his friends are.


Amy Adams

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AMY POEHLER When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumst...
AMY TAN People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.&...
AMY TAN My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was ...
AMY TAN It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
AMY TAN I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what ...
AMY TAN I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ...
AMY TAN I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to ...
AMY TAN There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being ri...
AMY TAN I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate obse...
AMY TAN My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's b...
AMY TAN I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
AMY TAN Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu...
AMY TAN I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the sam...
AMY TAN No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems fro...
AMY TAN I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what'...
AMY TAN Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...
AMY TAN God, life changes faster than you think.
AMY TAN A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them '...
AMY CHUA Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around...
AMY WINEHOUSE Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT