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.
Amy Bloom
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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.
Patrick Kane
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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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.
Frances Beinecke
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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!'
Karan Mahajan
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
Yitzhak Shamir
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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.
Octavia Spencer
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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.
Valerie Simpson
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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.
Harlan Coben
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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.
Young Thug
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
Randal Kleiser
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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.
Idina Menzel
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
Valentina Tereshkova
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.
Carl Crawford
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As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
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When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
Alexander Chee
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I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.
Anton Yelchin
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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.
Amy Bloom
