Aimee Bender Quotes
For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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I want to be a major force.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.
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The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.
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I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.
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For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
