April Bloomfield Quotes
My two sisters were always cooking. I wanted to be in the police force, but I didn't get in because I just so happened to procrastinate a bit, and I hadn't gotten my application in at the right time.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Writers are so important.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.
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We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out.
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We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
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I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.
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A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these people. You know the entire story arch. But on TV, you have to let your guard down. You don't know how long the show is going to last. There is this excitement that comes with developing a character long-term.
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My two sisters were always cooking. I wanted to be in the police force, but I didn't get in because I just so happened to procrastinate a bit, and I hadn't gotten my application in at the right time.
