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Amy Tan

"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 and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"

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"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 and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"

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Amber Hurdle

"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

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"The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do."

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Amber Hurdle

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

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Amber Hurdle

"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

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Amber Hurdle

"One thought fills immensity."

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"Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve."

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Amber Hurdle

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."

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"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them."

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"Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again."

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"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it."

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Amy Tan
"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."

Imagination

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Amy Tan
"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."

Life

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Amy Tan
"My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have."

Family

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Amy Tan
"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."

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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. Books saved me from being miserable."

Hope

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

Time

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Amy Tan
"God, life changes faster than you think."

Life

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Amy Tan
"I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was."

Memory

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Amy 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."

Writing

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Amy Tan
"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."

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