Amy Bloom Quotes
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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Do you want an interesting job? Yes. Do you want a balanced life? Yes. And to make a contribution as well? Of course.
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Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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When you run the Walt Disney Co., you gain a fair amount of experience in customer-facing businesses, particularly in site-based entertainment. I have a lot of experience in marketing, a lot of experience in selling, particularly tickets to site-based entertainment or movies or whatever.
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I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
