So is this a habit of yours, leaving your bag behind in order te strike up a conversation?" He grinned and nodded at the bench where I had been sitting. Lying beneath it was my book bag. "Wouldn't it be easier to just walk up to a guy and say hello?
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You are g... AMY PURDY When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ... AMY POEHLER The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a... AMY LEE In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer... AMY CHUA At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a... 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 ... 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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