Brenda Novak Quotes
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
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While our corporatists burn incense at the shrine of the global economy, Trump went to visit the working-class casualties. And those forgotten Americans in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin responded.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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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.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
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I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.
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Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.
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Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.
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Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.
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To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.
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If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.
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Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.
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Growing up as a kid, there were so many people that I disliked, I daydreamed about hurting them. Hell just seemed like a good place for all of them to go. Unfortunately, I don't believe it exists.
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See, the thing about guys is that I didn't really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable. I don't know why, not exactly. I just, I don't know, I just didn't belong. I think it embarrassed the hell out of me that I was a guy. And it really depressed me that there was the distinct possibility that I was going to grow up and be like one of those assholes.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
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'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.
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He was going to crash and burn, he might as well make it one hell of a conflagration.
