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Amy Bloom Quotes

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1953

Topics

Harmony Find Two Struggles Well Our

If I really treated business like a businessman, I wouldn't have done what I have done - opposing China. No businessman in their right mind would do this because you know that there will be repercussions.

Business Mind You Know Done Will

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

John Abercrombie

Music Thought Trying You Train Play

I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Women Listening Holiday Jazz Old Up

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

Marriage Divorce Seriously Way Take

Dancers are made, not born.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Born Dancers Made

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

Denzel Washington

Rain You Mud Pray Deal Pray For

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Change Art People World Know Movies

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Food Yourself Door Color Someone

Getting into a sleep routine before the first week of school will aid in easing the shock of waking up early.

Sleep School Week Routine Early Up

I'm old-fashioned that way. I don't believe you turn the president down.

Believe You Down Way President Turn

When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

Myself People Me You Artist Create

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

Future History You Know Shows

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