Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.
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The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
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If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.
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I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
