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Aimee Bender Quotes

For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 28, 1969

Topics

Me Writing Person Important Distract

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

Language Speech Way Anything Shapes

It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.

Jennifer Connelly

Beautiful Moving Story Thought Loved

I don't come from any type of entertainment. I come from a basketball family. My dad still says, 'Trevor, are you sure don't want to play basketball? You can play in college and go to the NBA!' But I did play.

Family College Basketball You Play

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

Book Library Name You Congress See

I don't think you should necessarily listen to a celebrity just because he is one. But if you can marshal your celebrity and really steep yourself in whatever issue you're trying to promote, it can actually move the ball forward, and we've done that.

Yourself Forward Think Trying You

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

Martin O'Malley

Roads Bridges Repair Rebuild Upgrade

If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right circumstances come up, my career is done.

Good Problem Enough Career I Can Up

The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I'd like to have dinner with.

Character Man Me Dinner Reading Him

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

Chelsea Peretti

Men Blue Trying Back Down New

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I'm going be training that child out the womb.

Time Broken Training Child My Own

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.

Good Myself Wife I Am Writing Write

We listen to a lot of classical and a lot of jazz, and so you get some funky notes here and there. And we get a little experimental in some of the deeper tracks.

You Jazz Listen Little Here Notes

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