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'.
Samantha Morton -
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.
Camille Paglia -
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
J. Tillman -
I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.
Cara Castronuova -
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.
Zach Braff
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
Naveen Jain -
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.
Victor Cherbuliez -
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.
Sada Thompson -
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.
Dabney Coleman -
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.
Nathan Sawaya -
In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.
Hannibal Buress
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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.
Wael Ghonim -
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.
C. Wright Mills -
I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.
Rachel Keller -
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.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.
Manoj Bhargava -
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Walter Scott
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I think women should be armed but should not vote … women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it … it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.
Ann Coulter -
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
If you go to any boardroom... the women are, by far, outnumbered by the men.
Arundhati Bhattacharya -
I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.
Poppy Z. Brite