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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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
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The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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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.
