Poppy Z. Brite Quotes
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.
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I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.
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When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
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To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.
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I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.
