A.M. Homes Quotes
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time.
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Reese Witherspoon is my everywoman. She's managed to have a family and this amazing career. That's the goal.
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Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
