Amy Bloom Quotes

'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.

Amy Bloom

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It's hard to get concert tickets.

John Hawkes

HardConcertGetTickets

I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.

Meg Wolitzer

IdeasFeelReadyNumbersSometimes

I've always believed that government tends to screw up whatever it touches, but Obama in particular seemed different. He understood tech issues that left the other candidates bewildered. Part of it may be his age. But whatever the reason, I had real hope that he could help lead us into a new century of technology leadership and growth.

Michael Arrington

LeadershipGrowthTechnologyHope

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

Stellan Skarsgard

FunnyChildhoodControlRealityOwn

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

Mickey Rooney

WorldBornKindOthersReasonOnly

The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.

Michael Leunig

LifeBeautifulTogetherStormHustle

People selling content internationally need to be highly focused on selling the right product to the right buyer. If things don't succeed on a particular network, they're not going to stay on very long.

Jon Feltheimer

PeopleSucceedLongSellingFocused

We forget that most questions in this world - the ones that really matter - are impossible to answer completely.

Chloe Benjamin

WorldImpossibleQuestionsForget

I have a lot of respect for the musical theater plays.

Christina Milian

RespectMusical TheaterTheaterPlays

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

Brandon Stanton

LifeExperienceAppreciationNew York

We need to have a national security that puts steel in front of our enemies. I would send weapons to Ukraine. I would work with NATO to put forces on the eastern border of Poland and the Baltic nations, and I would reinstate, put in place back in the missile defense system that we had in Poland and in the Czech Republic.

Scott Walker

WorkBorderBackSecurityPlace

Direct mail was the basis of a lot of new Right organizations in the '70s and early '80s, and it actually led to the downfall of the majority of them. It's very expensive, and you end up putting your organization more and more in debt if you're not successful with it.

Nina Easton

OrganizationEndYouEarlyNewDebt

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