People tend to forget that in our country,...... Quote by "Amy Bloom"

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
— Amy Bloom

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Other Quotes by "Amy Bloom"

My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. I know nothing about that woman.
— Amy Bloom

Tags: black, woman, mother, beautiful

My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.
— Amy Bloom

Tags: earth, surprise, think, sun

I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?
— Amy Bloom

Tags: think, society, me, love

There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'
— Amy Bloom

Tags: his, two, admire, dark

It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's not because anyone in their right mind says, 'You know, what's the most fascinating thing in the world?' It's because you need something new that happens every week in a frame.
— Amy Bloom

Tags: world, doctor, you, me