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.Amy Bloom
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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.
Sam Altman -
I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
Bayard Rustin -
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.
Patrick Duffy -
We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
Samuel Larsen -
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
Abraham Verghese
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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.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
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.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Dan Millman -
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard -
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.
Caitlin Kittredge
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I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
Jack L. Chalker -
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.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
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.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.
Ian Hacking -
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.
Barack Obama -
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.
Bradley Wiggins -
I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.
Simon Baker -
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather -
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
William Ames -
Let's just focus on unity and love.
Pam Bondi -
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.
Amy Bloom