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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.
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I have a love for boxing.
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When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.
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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
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Like such pro-Roberts groups as Progress for America, which began a significant advertising campaign within hours of Mr. Roberts' nomination, NARAL Pro-Choice America will continue to exercise our constitutional right to make sure the American people have an opportunity to hear all the facts about John Roberts' records during this process, ... We play an important role in engaging the American people in this debate about issues that affect their daily lives.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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I love comic books and always did as a kid.
