The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from the dead-end world where she lives in the South, ... They run off together and wind up in a casino town, like Reno or Vegas, and their relationship falls apart.


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I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it s...
AIMEE BENDER
Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It...
AIMEE MULLINS
and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair ...
AIMEE BENDER
My favorite of all was still the place on Vermont, the French cafe, La Lyonnaise, that had given me ...
AIMEE BENDER
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up a...
AIMEE BENDER
And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's be...
AIMEE BENDER
From Michael Jackson to Peggy Lee, I like it all.
CYRILLE AIMEE
Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
AIMEE MULLINS
The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.
AIMEE TEEGARDEN
I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister...
AIMEE WILLMOTT
I wasn't even born when dad swam in the Olympics. I've seen videos of some of his swims, alt...
AIMEE WILLMOTT
Every now and then, you'll get one of those days when you're feeling rubbish or when you hav...
AIMEE WILLMOTT
I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have any...
AIMEE TEEGARDEN
I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never...
AIMEE TEEGARDEN
Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't ch...
AIMEE TEEGARDEN
Don't worry about everything and really enjoy the moment.
AIMEE TEEGARDEN
I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part...
AIMEE MULLINS
We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV...
AIMEE MULLINS
If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. ...
AIMEE MULLINS
Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is forei...
AIMEE MULLINS
It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for some...
AIMEE MULLINS
I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
AIMEE MULLINS
Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.
AIMEE MULLINS
I haven't had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and ...
AIMEE MULLINS
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their '...
AIMEE MULLINS
I'm dating a very high-maintenance career.
AIMEE GARCIA
In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it&#...
AIMEE GARCIA
When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie car...
AIMEE GARCIA
To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if y...
AIMEE GARCIA
I have been a fan of Dexter since the pilot. Once I got the audition I just squealed, and you would ...
AIMEE GARCIA
I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I woul...
AIMEE GARCIA
Latinos are the fastest growing minority, and we're obviously not going anywhere. We're extr...
AIMEE GARCIA
Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, an...
AIMEE GARCIA
It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-len...
AIMEE GARCIA
'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother...
AIMEE CARTER
Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline sta...
AIMEE CARTER
I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I thin...
AIMEE BENDER
For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physic...
AIMEE BENDER
One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching ...
AIMEE BENDER
As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
AIMEE BENDER
I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing s...
AIMEE BENDER
I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what ...
AIMEE BENDER
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraugh...
AIMEE BENDER
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then i...
AIMEE BENDER
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightfor...
AIMEE BENDER
Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, wher...
AIMEE BENDER
I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events t...
AIMEE BENDER
For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me...
AIMEE BENDER
I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.
AIMEE BENDER
I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.
AIMEE BENDER
True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
AIMEE MULLINS
Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb i...
AIMEE BENDER