Dorothy Allison Quotes
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.
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What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.
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journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.
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Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.
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Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.
