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My breakfast is usually a wholegrain cereal or porridge, with walnuts sprinkled in it, berries, a tablespoon of honey, and chia seeds. I have coffee and a little cherry juice with seltzer. I have a seat by the window, and I look out at the view.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Berries Breakfast Cereal Cherry Coffee Honey Juice Little Look Out Seat Seeds View Window

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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

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Topics: America Circumstances Else Gives Keep Nobody Says Somebody You

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People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Alzheimer Been Case Different First First Time Happy Her Life Mother People She Somebody Terrible Think Time Tragedy Unhappy

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Popularity is given to you, and if you think that just because you're really popular you're a better person, it could be a real crash when you find the popularity goes down.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Because Better Better Person Could Crash Down Find Given Goes Just Just Because Person Popular Popularity Real Really Think You

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I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Comfortable Different Displaced Eyes Fresh Get Light Mother Need New New Eyes Routine Saw See Then Things You

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Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Amazing Chilly Could Feelings Had Images Kinds Magic Me Power Say Sensation Up Were Whatever Word Words You

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I went to an exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum about Shanghai, about how courtesans had been influential in bringing western culture to Shanghai. I bought a book and in it saw this striking group of women in a photograph called 'The Ten Beauties of Shanghai'.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Art Asian Beauties Been Book Bought Bringing Culture Exhibition Francisco Group Had How Influential Museum Photograph San Saw Shanghai Striking Ten Western Western Culture Women

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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Choice Enough Expression Freedom Freedom Of Expression Had Intelligent Make Make Up Mind My Own Only Own Up

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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Always Childhood Difficult Expect Had Having Her Herself How Know Mother Nurturing Own Seen She Should Very

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My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Become Both Care Concert Day Day Job Doctor Job Me Parents Pianist Sort Spare Spare Time Taken Then Time Were Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 19th, 1952

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