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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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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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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The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.
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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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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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When you find your soulmate, you could sleep under their armpits.
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Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
