Amy Bloom Quotes
If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.
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I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance EMA, trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.
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I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.
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The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
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And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.
