Rick Moody Quotes
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.
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The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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I'm actively looking at pilots in the very limited pilot season that is about to begin. Lots of work for my clothing line which is extremely exciting.
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We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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The country has been patient, we have been patient, but now ordinary Americans are being seriously harmed by this dispute.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.
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The only international language in the world is a child's cry.
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Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.
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Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
