I told them we couldn't do anything about it. They did the best they can. We knew after the beam we had to take a little time to step back and take a deep breath. We knew to win this meet would be hard. Was it possible? Hell yes.


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When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS
Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN
We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappines...
AMY CHUA
I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aeri...
AMY JACKSON
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a...
AMY TAN
I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...
AMY POEHLER
I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my...
AMY SEDARIS
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...
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
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
AMY SEDARIS
I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someo...
AMY SEDARIS
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS
People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS
I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS
I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS
More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS
I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS
If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS
Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
AMY SEDARIS
But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS
When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS
I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS