Poppy Z. Brite Quotes
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
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There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.
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I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.
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I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.
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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
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I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.
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All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
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Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.
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It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you. But that's why I admire Bob Dylan's live performances - he's steadfast about mixing up the songs, not just sticking to his greatest hits, and reinterpreting them to the extent that you really can't recognize them until halfway through. It's like, I DARE you to sing along.
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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
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Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.
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I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
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I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.
