Amy Bloom Quotes
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.
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Believe in yourself and know that you're strong enough to get through just about anything.
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I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it.
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
