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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: Assumes Believers Community Devices Emotional Extreme Knowledge Metaphor Motivational Other Religious Relying Rhetorical Speech Within

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Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: Brain Creativity Day Each Each Day Helps Just Least Less Lousy Me Mine Nap Out Own Point Producing Ran Realise Refresh Sake Should Than Think Took While Words Work You

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The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: American Approach Attacks Center Fundamental Government Islamic Pentagon Prompted September Shift Terrorism Trade World World Trade World Trade Center

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Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: Abortion Against Bible Centuries Christian Crusades Doctors Even Gays Harmless Helped Justify Latent Over Perform Slavery Themselves Theology Today Until Violence Who Words

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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?

~Amy Waldman

Topics: Afterwards American Attacks Been Country Decade Different Different Way Happened In The Past Kind Know Like Lot Past Questions Response Some Think Totally Very Wake Way Were Who You I Think

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So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: American Anonymous Architect Born Competition Design His Khan Memorial Muslim Name Premise Raised Submission Virginia Won

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I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

~Amy Waldman

Topics: Around Novel Really Sitting Thinking Want Write Years Years Ago

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While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: About Against Birth Dedicated Degrees Give Ground Ground Zero Mosque New New York People Protest Researching Submission Thought Twins Very While York Zero

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My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: Aging Beginning Children Difficult End Issues Life Parents Strange

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I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: About Other People Thought Wasted Worrying Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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