Amy Bloom Quotes
I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
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If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
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I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
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I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.
