Erik Per Sullivan Quotes
When I was little, I wanted to be a spy or a monster truck driver. Later, I just thought movies would be, like, a good hobby or something.
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.
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I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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My first thought is always of light.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
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I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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If something or someone's really bugging you, just sit on it. Just sit on it.
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Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
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You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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When I was little, I wanted to be a spy or a monster truck driver. Later, I just thought movies would be, like, a good hobby or something.
