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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.
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O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
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Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty.
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You want to see women your own age in films.
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I always kind of did my own thing, but it got me into trouble a lot, so I started listening to what people were telling me to do to show I was a team player.
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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.
