Amy Waldman Quotes
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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I have always been attracted to songs that make me want to dance.
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Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.
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I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the hell you were doing there.
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Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.
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History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
