Amy Bloom Quotes

If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

Amy Bloom

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LoveCreativityBaseballPeopleGame

It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.

Jeff Sessions

ColorAmericanSomeoneSkinCitizen

I love Sunday lunches with the family that start at 1 P.M. and finish at 5 P.M.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

FamilyLoveStartSundayFinish

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

PoetryWrongSensePoemBeginsLump

We must make children and families a national priority.

Robert Casey

ChildrenMustMakePriorityFamilies

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

Rosemary Clooney

YellowColorsNightLovedHands

I launched Ballet Beautiful not long after finishing at Columbia and met Natalie Portman shortly after. We began training and preparing her for her role in 'Black Swan.' From there, I continued to build and expand the method itself along with the business, always looking for ways to share the workout with others around the world.

Mary Helen Bowers

BusinessBeautifulTrainingWorld

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

Mike Fitzpatrick

ChildrenSchoolSafetyKnowWill

I've always been against the idea of dividing films between festival titles and popular movies. I think you can make films that are both.

Michel Hazanavicius

ThinkYouMoviesAlwaysAgainst

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

Lucinda Franks

LoveMenWiseBabySweetNight

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Joseph Epstein

EnvySayMaySevenMostDeadly

We need to send a powerful message to the world in a unified voice: that we can fight for social justice for everyone, everywhere, and change the world, not just get married. We can continue to build our communities and address the root causes of queer and trans poverty and deaths.

Chelsea Manning

ChangeJusticeChange The WorldFight

Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?

Peter York

BrandGrowDieYouLivingSeriously

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