Neil Strauss Quotes
People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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I live in Chicago, but my work is always in New York or L.A., so I always have to travel for my job.
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If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.
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I relax, meditate and do 80 minutes of yoga every day.
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The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.
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People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
