Amy Tan
Related I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as ... ALAN HOVHANESS AMY TAN PRIYANKA CHOPRA I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as ... ALAN HOVHANESS I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans. GARY SINISE JET LI My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, a... JORGE M. PEREZ My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my loca... GENE LUEN YANG I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was ... ZANA MARJANOVIC Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was ... STEVE BALLMER Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a differen... PARDIS SABETI Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know. YAO MING EDDIE MURPHY MAXINE KUMIN VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some ... PATRICK CHAN ANG LEE I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in lo... Q'ORIANKA KILCHER DALAI LAMA TINA TURNER PAUL THEROUX B. F. SKINNER CONOR MCGREGOR CHRIS CRUTCHER He was surprised that I knew about Egyptian culture and politics. JUSTINE LACKEY MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS BRAD PITT When we talked about "A Modest Proposal" I felt like I was running circles around everybody. I under... EDDIE HUANG I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian... TAO LIN It all goes back to 'Wow, I never knew this about Marco Polo.' This is an incredible story a... JOHN FUSCO IGGY AZALEA DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child... LISA LUTZ S. E. HINTON As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going t... HANNAH STORM AARON SORKIN ALEX TIZON I wasn't naive, but at the end of my Miss America year, when two different executives attacked m... GRETCHEN CARLSON EDMUND WHITE KARAN JOHAR The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called... NAZANIN BONIADI I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out t... MICK CORNETT I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a profes... TROY POLAMALU I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaoli... DANIEL WU When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporar... TOM PERROTTA Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and &#... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE PATTI SMITH RAY KURZWEIL ZOE KRAVITZ I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split... GYORGY LIGETI I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way ... BRUCE FEILER At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I ... MAC DEMARCO Just because I am paying attention to politics and culture doesn't mean that I should be talking... ANDREW BREITBART MAYA ANGELOU I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon... RUTH B I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In m... NATSUO KIRINO TAYLOR SWIFT When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definite... DAVID LAMBERT BRIE LARSON After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political e... JESMYN WARD I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly ... CHARLES SOULE ANDREA JUNG I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and ... CHEN GUANGBIAO TANITH LEE There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, s... ZIYI ZHANG There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wear... ELEANOR CATTON I was raised in a dominantly Filipino family. I didn't know I was 'mixed' until I got ol... VINCENT RODRIGUEZ III This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux In... MARC FORGIONE JOHNNY DEPP DAMIAN WOETZEL Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE JOHNNY OTIS JOHN SCALZI I really want our store to be the place for people interested in jade articles and traditional Chine... YE LING I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I fel... MARISA BERENSON AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS MICHELLE OBAMA It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I fel... ROBIN ROBERTS HUNTER HAYES PSY BRAD PITT JAY-Z JHUMPA LAHIRI I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture. NAOMIE HARRIS My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that ma... SANFORD I. WEILL TODD BARRY AASIF MANDVI GWEN STEFANI My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I di... TAMARA TUNIE I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call th... ELLIOT PERLMAN GARY LOCKE I'm very American. I love our culture. I love the pieces, the most mundane stuff about our culture, ... EXENE CERVENKA My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfri... ELIZABETH WARREN I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; t... DAMIAN MARLEY My first book, 'Fast Forward', was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids ... LAUREN GREENFIELD CORNEL WEST According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not jus... ALICE DREGER I didn't know anything about Eliza when I first got the call about 'Hamilton.' Tommy Kai... PHILLIPA SOO China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to... ABIGAIL WASHBURN 'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third perso... MICHAEL KORYTA
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I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be o... 
I sang the 'Sunday Night Football' theme song two years in a row - my first part in American... 
I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share s... 
I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read abo... 
I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment ... 
I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground m... 
I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li. 
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I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people ... 
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I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like ... 
My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writi... 
I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... 
When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't kno... 
I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical ... 
When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think o... 
I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken i... 
When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders i... 
I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to... 
I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of... 
I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I ... 
From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt v... 
I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With b... 
I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. L... 
I said, 'Don't worry about it -- I know our culture.' 
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I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways ... 
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother w... 
When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything! 
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing th... 
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When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I cou... 
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Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people&... 
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became T... 
Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo... 
The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more. 
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Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the succe... 
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Asia has a great future; we here in the Philippines will benefit from this Asian prosperity. 