Amy Bloom Quotes
I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.
Quotes to Explore
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.
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I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
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An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
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A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.
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When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.
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Nobody's suffering more than the Palestinian people from this whole process. And I would like to see - if we could get some movement from Palestinian leadership - what I'd like to see is a loosening up of some of the restrictions on providing aid directly to the Palestinian people.
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Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
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You can't just live in phenomenon and not research it.
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I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.
