Amy Tan
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I think that's what activates the Tea Party Movement. What they see is the government interferin... SHARRON ANGLE DEYTH BANGER ALBER ELBAZ Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives... JANE CAMPION DORIS LESSING Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.TEGAN QUIN LATOYA JACKSON BEN VEREEN Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live ot... ALAN CHEUSE CHUCK PALAHNIUK When you usher, you meet a lot of people who are not involved with the theater, but (who still consi... GRACE MORGAN JOHN C. MAXWELL SHEENA IYENGAR RICHELLE MEAD SHANNON L. ALDER You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the... CHARLES SPALDING Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned so... FERN SCHUMER CHAPMAN JANE SEYMOUR People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that... MIKE ROWE The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else's lif... KATHERINE PATTERSON I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know?... BARRY JENKINS NICOLE POLIZZI SIMON HOGGART DAVID TENNANT And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different worl... ALEX PETTYFER LEMONY SNICKET We still have many stories to report ahead of us. How do people start to rebuild their lives? How do... MARCY MCGINNIS MARCUS AURELIUS CASSANDRA CLARE KAZUO ISHIGURO MORRISSEY "I'll be happy when...." is the way many people think they are living their lives. Yet, happiness is... JOHN AGNO "I'll be happy when...." is the way many people think they are living their lives. Yet, happiness is... JOHN G AGNO XAVIER DOLAN I would like to see a description of their daily lives that substantiates that position. One of the ... LINDA HIRSHMAN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH DON MARQUIS When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You se... YOUNG JEEZY JOSE SARAMAGO CRAIG GROESCHEL PAULO COELHO JR Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you tak... JAMIE FOXX ELIZABETH THORNTON GERARD BUTLER We want to grow the idea of reading gardens across the country. Our aim is to inspire. We want peopl... HEIDI KETVERTIS C. JOYBELL C. JAMES PATTERSON There's a fundamental bond of trust we have with the people we elect that, when it comes to our dail... ANDREW LIGHT JENNY AGUTTER ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC PAUL WELLSTONE LINDA RONSTADT If you're a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities ... ALAINA HUFFMAN It's so sad how we can go through life hating people, thinking that they are so different from us. I... ROY CROFT Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by... W. P. KINSELLA A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that ... GEORGE GURDJIEFF TA-NEHISI COATES Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we ke... PENELOPE LIVELY UNKNOWN Every person in life is social,but our social lives are directed towards what we sincerely love,to s... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) you could see all the catastrophe in the city. You could see people floating, swimming, trying to sa... JOHN WALSH JOHN GREEN When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why... FRED DURST When lending anything you should do so based on the INTEGRITY of the individual, and not the relatio... SINSEMILLA JACKSON If we do see that we can cure animals from their cancers, then it's worth investigating the molecula... GELSOMINA DE STASIO It's one of those situations where it really impressed me. We had two people that nearly had lost th... CMDR. LEE VANCE What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see t... CARLA HALL I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or yo... D. W. GRIFFITH People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest ... CAREY MULLIGAN ROBERT REDFORD SUNDAY ADELAJA We talk to the kids for a few minutes about the piece and ask them what they see. Then we get them t... BEN CLARK N.H. KLEINBAUM I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of th... JOY BEHAR Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot ... 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