Aimee Bender Quotes
I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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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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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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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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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an 'Austin & Ally' episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to anybody is that it's never too late to start your life again and dream new dreams.
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Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
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It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.
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I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.
