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My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one


Amy Plum

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AMY PLUM I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
TALULAH RILEY I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom an...
CC SABATHIA Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone,” her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ...
REBECCA MCNUTT There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I...
UMBERTO ECO My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the c...
GWEN STEFANI I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my he...
TIM TEBOW I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
MARY MCCARTHY There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has ou...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million elect...
MICHIO KAKU My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.
JAMIE LEE CURTIS I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man an...
NEIL GAIMAN That would be a real plum,
MARK WHITE I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was goi...
JANIS IAN I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!
JULIE BOWEN Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I ...
DREE HEMINGWAY When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I...
NATASHA CALIS I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
BARRY STERNLICHT My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real...
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS My younger brother, David, plays hockey for Plum and my mom takes him from game-to-game when me and ...
JONATHAN SMITH After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's uni...
ELIZA DUSHKU You've had my heart since day one, after all you gave it to me. I love you mom.
TAHIR SUBASIC When one woman found out I had multiple sclerosis, she said to me, 'My heart bleeds for you.'...
TERI GARR My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You kno...
J. R. MARTINEZ Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a col...
SUZY MENKES In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at thei...
DOUG LIMAN Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end."
"Should I try Fox New...
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scena...
ROBIN WASSERMAN Now here's Amy Pond, standing in the freezing ocean, holding the body of her imaginary friend, and s...
JAMES GOSS We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
SIMONE WEIL Last night my imaginary friend died. So I took him to an imaginary graveyard and buried him in imagi...
YAMIN RASHEED Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.
PETER JURASIK She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Plum Island is an aging laboratory and the department is looking at all the options for establishing...
LARRY ORLUSKIE My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You kn...
RORY MCILROY It's not a normal voice. It doesn't fit into people's preconceptions about what a woman's voice shou...
JOEY LAUREN ADAMS When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get br...
JAMES FRANCO Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are f...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to ev...
F. W. DE KLERK Rory: Amy. I'm gonna need a little help here.
Amy: Just stop it!
Rory: Just think it throu...
STEVEN MOFFAT I was just angry at my mom, ... I don't know if it was because they broke up, but I used to argue wi...
GREG ODEN I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was a...
ANN HOOD As the daydreams grew longer, the distinction between what was real and what was imaginary grew less...
FENNEL HUDSON I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Cu...
MERRY CLAYTON After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I fel...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,&#...
ADAM BEACH Of course we would have preferred to have an Israeli presence there to have real-time information, b...
MOSHE KATSAV I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's...
RICKIE LEE JONES Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time t...
BEN SHAHN My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She w...
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER I made that declaration and I didn't question it. It was clear to me what I wanted to be. My dad sai...
CESAR MILLAN My mom always said I spent more time upside down than right side up when I was doing gymnastics.
KRISTIN FISHER I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl ...
TORI SPELLING We all know that I would have preferred an election by now. We didn't have one,
STEPHEN HARPER I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
RYAN WHITE It wasn't easy telling my family that I'm gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgivi...
BOB SMITH I think Amy Winehouse's decision not to go to rehab was a bad one. In fact, I think it was the worst...
ROBERT CLARK I prefer if friends come over to my office and we talk our heart out over a cup of coffee. I feel th...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI I got a phone call -- he said, 'Mom, call 911. My son had to see that.
DARLENE MCINTOSH I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my f...
MOHSIN HAMID I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avo...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed...
ROALD DAHL At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for m...
SARAH DESSEN I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arr...
J. MAARTEN TROOST At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or...
MAY SARTON I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. ...
SUSAN OLSEN My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.
KATE UPTON My mom says I was born screaming.
ELLE KING Everything I said, I said with my heart,
MICHAEL JACKSON One day I took a visit and my mom asked me how I liked it. I said it wasn't too bad. She said good, ...
AARON STOCKSTEL My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart....
NIKKI REED My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for th...
KEVIN DURANT Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbi...
HOLLY BLACK You're a hero,' Mom repeated, squeezing my hand and kissing my forehead. 'You saved six lives in tha...
DAN WELLS I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES Hello, Bradley,' said Mom. She'd regained her composure after my outburst, and now raised her camera...
DAN WELLS When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to ge...
JAMES FRANCO I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
ELLIOTT YAMIN I'd be lying to you if I said at 8 I went up to my parents and said, 'Listen, I'm going ...
EUGENE SIMON My family was very happy in the Cleveland area. We wanted to select an opportunity that was a good f...
LAL HENEGHAN In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came...
LAURA HARRIER You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.
She shook her head.<...
CASSANDRA CLARE I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I...
CAITLIN HALE My arm is real tired because my hand has been extended for six months. Two weeks ago I said that Wil...
LARRY BURNS I had been going around to everybody saying Katherine Heigl has to be 'Stephanie Plum', and ...
JANET EVANOVICH I love you so fucking much, my naughty, sweet Plum.
CHRISTINA LAUREN Let's just say that I'm not the kind of guy your mother would want you hanging around with" - Vincen...
AMY PLUM There was nothing girlish about me. I wore clothes hand-stitched by my mother... I had only one ear ...
DIVYANKA TRIPATHI I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real...
FLORENCE HENDERSON My mom was a very dynamic woman. I wish I could do a quarter of what my mom was able to achieve.
BRIDGET IDTENSOHN Growing up, I had a very vivid imagination and Leonardo was like my best imaginary friend that I spo...
RUBY ROSE This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style ...
ROBYN LIVELY I asked him to say hi to my mom to prove he was there, and he was really great and nice and talked t...
SASHA COHEN When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be a...
RICO RODRIGUEZ I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.
JODI PICOULT My parents have always worried that I’d take Amy too personally — they always tell not to read t...
GILLIAN FLYNN I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I design...
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AMY CHUA At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappines...
AMY CHUA I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aeri...
AMY JACKSON Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a...
AMY TAN I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...
AMY POEHLER I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my...
AMY SEDARIS As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...
AMY POEHLER When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumst...
AMY TAN People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.&...
AMY TAN My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was ...
AMY TAN It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
AMY TAN I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what ...
AMY TAN I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ...
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