Our won-loss record is not what we'd like, but we've been very competitive. Our game with the Gophers showed that.


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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
I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS
I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS
We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS
I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS
I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the...
AMY BLOOM
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Na...
AMY BLOOM
I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
AMY SMART
I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are r...
AMY POEHLER
I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ...
AMY WALDMAN
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...
AMY TAN