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.
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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.
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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.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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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.
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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.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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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.
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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.
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Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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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.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
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Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
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Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.
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Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.
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And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
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I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
