Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.
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I was born in New York in 1904.
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I think girls especially get so caught up in thinking like, 'Oh I have to be prim or proper or fun and sunshiny' when, like, you can be literally anything. You can be mannish; you can do whatever, and it's acceptable.
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I was doing one of my first plays at the Royal Court, and Matt LeBlanc came to see the play. He came backstage afterwards, and I couldn't speak. I kept trying to, but no words came out. I just kept thinking, 'That's Joey from 'Friends.' That's actual Joey from 'Friends!'' It was so embarrassing!
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If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!
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When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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I believe you can take all experiences and use them as knowledge and fuel to be a better person.
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I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.
