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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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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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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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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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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When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
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I've never lived through a moment in history where people are using their voices and becoming strong advocates for what they believe in.
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The reality is that Islam is facing a phenomenal rise with regards to fundamentalism. It cannot control it, but what is sure is that neither can European states control and monitor the development of fundamentalist networks in their own territory.
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My favourite actress is Meryl Streep. Oh, and Anna Magnani.
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I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion-the two cannot live together.
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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.
