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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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Pope has more virulence and less vehemence than any of the great satirists. His character of Sporus is the perfection of satirical writing. The very sound of words scarify before the sense strikes.
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I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.
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Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
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You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world.
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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.
