Poppy Z. Brite Quotes
I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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I'd really like to make my mark in India.
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I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.
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I guess I talk about her because I'm interested; I'm listening. Taylor Swift's words are so valuable to so many young people, not just her #GirlSquad.
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I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.
