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. — Amy Tan
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Amy Tan : American Novelist
Born: February 19, 1952
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘kno…
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special eff…
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out …
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as m…
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant neve…
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should h…
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘kno…
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special eff…
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out …
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as m…
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant neve…
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that …
I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody’s family …
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should h…
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read a…
When you’re watching somebody read your material and they sm…
As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenup…
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I gues…
I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody a…
A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt …
I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and …
Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She’s a gre…
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the…
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Swit…
So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn’t …
The metaphor I’ve used is… somebody’s going to push my fam…
