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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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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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
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I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.
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Accessibility is key. MMOs are great for traditional gamers who have a lot of time to become immersed in a world, but the mass market wants things bite-sized.
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I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.
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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.
