Rick Moody Quotes

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

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• I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Record
  • Break
  • Someone

• I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Memories

• You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Heart
  • You
  • Break

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hell

• I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was – you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Know
  • Sense
  • Rules

• What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, or they've worked with me, or they know me, or we've met. So there's a lot of backstuff on the 'Vicki!' show.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Fun
  • Worked
  • Notion

• I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Like
  • Being
  • Thing

• Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Work
  • See
  • Directors

• They worked hard to not give labor a dedicated slot today.

  

  Alan Young
  • Today
  • Labor
  • Worked

• I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Great
  • School
  • Black

• 99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Break
  • Wants
  • Less

• It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Death
  • Economy
  • Break

• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Poetry

• It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • Break
  • Give

• Hope will break your heart all over again.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Break

• West Virginia clearly wanted it more. They worked harder, and played with a great deal of heart and determination.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Heart
  • Wanted
  • Worked

• The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Women
  • Break
  • Modesty

• Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

  

  William Petersen
  • Law
  • Break
  • Stills

• Mondrian? His mind was too subtle. He worked in the light. I work in the darkness.. .Mondrian is the Buddha of painting. I saw him once. You wondered how a man could radiate such charisma.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Darkness
  • Worked

• Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need something to push them. I think it's mostly love that causes them to break their routines and move on.

  

  Wong Kar-wai
  • People
  • Moving
  • Certain

• My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Real
  • Family
  • Mother

• Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Mother
  • Water
  • Investigation

• I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

  

  Rick Moody
  • Break
  • Worked
  • Whenever