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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Human
  • Break
  • Hearts

• I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Genius
  • Worked
  • Casey Stengel

• Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Body
  • Break
  • Causes

• The more connections you have, the easier it will be to break you.

  

  Alexandra Reid Rania
  • Break
  • Connections

• To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

  

  Nicolas Cage
  • Actor
  • Rules
  • Break

• When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the insidious nature and cumulative effects of the abuse that do the damage. Over time, this type of abuse eats away at your self-confidence and sense of self-worth, undermining any good feelings you have about yourself and about your accomplishments.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Fault
  • Damage
  • Self-confidence

• I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Believe
  • Long
  • History

• I'm sitting on top of the world, and I've got hemorrhoids.

  

  Jack Roy
  • World
  • Top
  • Hemorrhoids

• When everything is said and done there is nothing left to do or say.

  

  Darryl Dawkins
  • Done
  • Everything
  • Nothing

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

  

  Rick Moody
  • Break
  • Worked
  • Whenever