Amy Bloom Quotes

My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.

Amy Bloom

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Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

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I feel L.A. is unlike anything I've experienced. It's nice when I can relate to people, but that's not very often. I know they're out there, but I feel that there's a very big pressure here to be seen as being gorgeous and special. I don't think there's the same pressure in Australia.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

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When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.

Jenny Lewis

NameFeelYouRightSoloYour

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

John Cusack

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I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.

Matt Groening

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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

John Ruskin

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I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

Ana Castillo

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I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

Trish Stratus

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It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.

Michael Nesmith

HistoryCulturePeopleYouKnowNow

I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.

Miles Teller

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My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.

Jason Aldean

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I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.

Jorja Smith

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