Poppy Z. Brite Quotes
I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.
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I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well.
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I had a great time with John Duigan; he's pretty amazing.
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I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.
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Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.
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The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
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I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.
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Men’s life expectancy was one year less than women’s in 1920; today, it is seven years less, yet the federal government has only an Office of Research on Women’s Health.
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There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules. They can tell you that people in an ad will get you greater readership. They can tell you that a sentence should be this short or that long. They can tell you that body copy should be broken up for easier reading. They can give you fact after fact after fact. They are the scientists of advertising. But there's one little rub. Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
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I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.
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Philosophy teaches you to think big.
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Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.
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I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.
