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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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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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 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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The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.
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I like people. They're entertaining. I just may laugh at different things than most people. I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.
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My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
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I would be a giraffe because I just want to experience what a sore throat and being a giraffe feels like. It would be really uncomfortable walking around in the Sahara and being like, 'I really need, like, 15 lozenges for my giraffe body.'
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In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
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Only someone who believes in marriage would be married five times.
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Is it he or is it I that experience this?
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You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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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.
