Amy Bloom Quotes
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I lead a very boring, normal life.
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I remember one of the first albums I got was an album called 'Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous.'
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This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
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My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
