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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It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.
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Ed Grimley lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.
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We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.
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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.
