Amy Bloom Quotes
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.
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Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.
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I actually used to compete at show-jumping when I was a young'un.
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'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
