School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed that creative outlet so much. Also, I'm just bad with numbers.


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AMY TAN
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER
I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE
Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY
After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY
Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER
I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT
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