Rick Moody Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I love my sleep.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
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I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
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A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
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The best project is one that asks a novel question.
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I love comic books and always did as a kid.
