Aimee Bender Quotes
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.
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Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
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My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
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This is a medical service. It always was.
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I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.
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I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.
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I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
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Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.
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It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice.
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Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.
