Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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There are times I can't even figure myself out.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.
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I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.
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I wish all men were like dogs.
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When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.
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I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.
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When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
