Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults. - Amy Bloom

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We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.

Amy Bloom

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

Being Real, Faults, Real, Unashamed

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I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.

Guilty, Netting, Punished, Safe, Trim, World

I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

Embarrassingly, Perseverance, Team, Think, Thinking, Toothless

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

Kindness, People, Shyness, Take

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

Avoiding, Process, Procrastinating, Writing

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Depth, Experience, Lasts, Poem, Stories, Surprise

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I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends and family, the people who will put up with you. Discover what it means to be close to your work, to be intimate with a subject. Measure the difference between that and working with someone you don't know as much about. Of course there are many good photographs that have nothing to do with staying close to home, and I guess what I'm really saying is that you should take pictures of something that has meaning for you

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I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

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America has everything, why should they want us.

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All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate.

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