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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When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.
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We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But we are not girls, and so can be almost certain that we know nothing about the matter.
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The key thing about force protection is... if you focus too much on force protection, and you disengage yourself from the community, you're putting yourself at greater risk because you need to interact with the community in a positive way to gain the intelligence you need.
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Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
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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.
