Douglas Brunt Quotes
In my first book, 'Ghosts Of Manhattan,' the setting was Wall Street, and I explored the predictable nature of a bond trader inside the compensation scheme at Bear Stearns and the government regulations of Wall Street. That was about money.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.
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You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible.
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I have a great office.
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Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
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In my first book, 'Ghosts Of Manhattan,' the setting was Wall Street, and I explored the predictable nature of a bond trader inside the compensation scheme at Bear Stearns and the government regulations of Wall Street. That was about money.
