Stephen Graham Jones Quotes
The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Ravi Teja helps the co-artistes, and he is a very kind person.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live with hatred. If something bad happens, you feel bad about it; you forgive and move on. There's no hatred.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.
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With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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I am a firm believer that any legitimate government has to be based on rule of law and a recognition that all people are equal under the law.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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I don't watch reality TV much, but sometimes I'll be on the E! channel and see that show "Total Divas", about female wrestlers. It's like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur.
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I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.
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I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would.
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The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.
