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 loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
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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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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
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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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A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?
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It's so much easier to complain about something than celebrate it.
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People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.
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We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey or in Iraq. This will not benefit the relations between the two countries.
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I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
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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.
