Neil Strauss Quotes
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
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I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
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I enjoy modeling. I feel that acting is more fulfilling for me, and you definitely have a lot more to contribute as an actress than you do as a model, but that being said, when I shoot with a really incredible photographer, it's exciting and inspiring.
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I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.
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To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education.
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I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.
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I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.
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Gay is not a choice.
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I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.
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The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.
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People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
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Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.
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In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
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In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women.
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I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.
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When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.
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Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.
