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Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.


Amy Bloom

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HAROLD BLOOM I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult fi...
ORLANDO BLOOM Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the...
ALLAN BLOOM Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple her...
ORLANDO BLOOM Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I nev...
ORLANDO BLOOM My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about...
ORLANDO BLOOM Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gas...
HOWARD BLOOM We all have day jobs and fantasize about being rock stars and alt-country stars.
DAVE BLOOM The people from church see us in a totally different environment. But I have to censor myself on the...
DAVE BLOOM If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?
PAUL BLOOM There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proporti...
ORLANDO BLOOM Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
ORLANDO BLOOM I think his modus operandi has evolved into, you can just try to do the best you can every single da...
LARRY BLOOM I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very ...
RACHEL BLOOM I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whol...
RON BLOOM Obviously, this is a continuation of dollar woes.
DAVID BLOOM I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone...
ORLANDO BLOOM Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their childre...
ALLAN BLOOM It really isn't about winning the medal for me.
JEREMY BLOOM