Dennis Cooper Quotes
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.Dennis Cooper
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
Hannes Alfven -
It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.
Daniel Cormier -
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
Carlos Ghosn -
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
Adam Baldwin -
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
Walter Murch -
As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
Zaha Hadid
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
Barbara Bush -
I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
Yitzhak Rabin -
There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
Naomi Watts -
I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
Jackie DeShannon -
As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
Dana Hussein -
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
Gavin Bryars
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
Gail Kelly -
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde -
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
Jacki Weaver -
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura Linney -
That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
Patricia Cornwell -
Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.
Jack Ma
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I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.
Tracy Spiridakos -
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
Charles Dickens -
In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.
Benjamin F. Johnson -
We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.
Andrew Kaufman -
She knew her husband to be an understanding man. Allowing people their eccentricities, faults, and mess-ups was one of his virtues, something best learned early by anyone who would presume to work with animals.
Bradford Morrow -
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
Dennis Cooper