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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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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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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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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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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I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'
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If you make the schedule exciting and make the events exciting, that is what guarantees you the people to come back if they had a good time.
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Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.
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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.
