Amy Bloom Quotes
We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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... There's a joy, To the fond votaries of fame unknown, To hear the still small voice of conscience speak In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul.
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Nothing is yet in its true form.
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To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom floor, and just get down on my hands and knees and start looking at it in that physical space. "Does this really follow from this? Should this be here or elsewhere?" I will literally cut the paper into paragraphs. I'll cut it into segments and move the segments around from one narrative to the other until I feel that I've found the natural structure.
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Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
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A new sport is being created every day in the U.S.
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Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me
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We don't go on about trying to save the Brazilian rain forest. We're not ashamed of the fact that we can write lyrics like Let's Get Rocked which 99 percent of the world thinks is completely ridiculous, stupid and immature. If George Bush stood up on stage and pretended to be Eddie Van Halen that would be ridiculous, so when I see the Billy Braggs of this world using music as a soapbox it pisses me off. Music should always entertain, first and foremost. Nobody would take us seriously if we did songs like shut the ozone layer, save the rain forests, stop killing people in Bosnia. Everybody would laugh at us. I'd rather listen to Noddy Holder (Slade) sing about nothing at all than do a duet with Sinead O'Connor. We're not that desperate for publicity. We'll always be Leppard.
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We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.
