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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You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?
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We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.
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At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers.
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My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!
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Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
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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.
