Aimee Bender Quotes
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
Quotes to Explore
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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I think I am feeling comfortable in Bollywood more than in Hollywood because I have spent more time here now and I am understanding a lot of things. I am feeling pretty good here. I really don't plan on running off anywhere.
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
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I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.
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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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We live in a society where everything's packaged.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
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I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.
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My first job was cleaning sheep pens.
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When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
