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'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women's moguls.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: About America Bloom Close Game Going Molly Named North North America Olympics Remarkable She Story Third True True Story Woman Women Young Young Woman

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The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I've played overshadow the comedic stints that I've had. 'Darjeeling Limited' is a comedy; The 'Brothers Bloom' is a comedy.

~Adrien Brody

Topics: Bloom Brothers Certain Comedic Comedy Craft Devotion Had How Intensity Limited Odd Performance Played Roles Thing Think Types I Think

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The Right likes to think that intellectuals and academics like Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza spurred the explosive growth of movement conservatism in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was actually mostly Rush Limbaugh.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: Academics Actually Bloom Conservatism Explosive Growth Intellectuals Like Likes Mostly Movement Right Rush Rush Limbaugh Think 1990S 1980S

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Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Bloom Commercially Driven Had Interest Like Mother Mother Teresa Poor Saying Tech

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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Black Bloom Cherish Cherished Clear Every Everyone Flower Get Older Soul Think Women You I Think

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In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Activity After Again Bloom His Joyce Leave Life Like Living Man Mental Minimum Never Reduce Room Spanish Story Tells Terms Those Ulysses Who Writer

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I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Asked Bloom Books Bunch Contemporary Everything Found Given Had Harold Having Him His Just Late Life Me Novels Read Shall Where Which Wisdom

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Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: About Anxiety Before Bloom Book Dreamer Each Five Harold Influence Influential Just Learnt Long Old Other Poets Published Reader Stories Taken Terrifying Up Writer Years

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What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

~Anna Neagle

Topics: All Year Away Bloom Chilly Country Days Far Far Away Few Flowers Like Lived Long Matter Never Rain Sometimes Sun Weeks Where Winter Wonder Would Year

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Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.

~Anne Hathaway

Topics: Agree Art Art Form Atlas Beliefs Bloom Certain Characters Compelling Form Full Her Issues Just Mean Novel Saying She Some Story Tell Unbelievable Whether Woman You

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