Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.
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No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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There's been a progression in my sound.
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I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.
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No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
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NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
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You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
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I would be surprised... if someone at CBS wasn't thinking that eventually Johnny's gonna retire and if we have somebody in place, we'll be in good shape.
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...The modern fading of interest in religion.
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You're never out of the game until you've lost the final point.
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Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
