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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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 seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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I don't like feeling full when I start a game, so that's why I have a bigger meal in morning or four hours before game.
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The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.
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I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.
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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.
