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Amy Waldman

"I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?"

Source : "The Fraught, Fictional Road To A Sept. 11 Memorial". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. August 15, 2011.

Amy Waldman

#Country Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.”

Source : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”
“A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.”

Source : Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.325
“Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.”
“The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.”
“I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who was much more interested in maternal and pseudo-maternal love, so they were unimportant to me. I didn't even notice the lack of men in the story until I finished it. But once I did notice it, I was kind of delighted. Apparently, my subconscious is totally sexist.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.”
“The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.”
“It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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