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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• 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
  • People
  • Business
  • Job

• I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Think
  • Respect
  • Environment

• 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
  • Up
  • Men
  • Words

• 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
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Help

• 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
  • Nice
  • Myself
  • Quality

• I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Hate
  • Choice
  • Just

• I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Learn

• 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
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• 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
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Career

• As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Long
  • Country
  • Ambition

• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • Writing
  • You

• 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
  • Women
  • Team
  • Management

• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Yield

• 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
  • Up
  • American
  • Listening

• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • School

• That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Technology
  • Philosophy

• You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Time
  • Home
  • Parents

• Working at the 'Review', if anything, the impression you got was, 'I'll never be good enough. I'll never work hard enough. I'll never be devoted enough.' These people are staying up all night over their sentences!

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Enough
  • Working
  • Impression

• If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Country
  • War
  • Day

• Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Different
  • Talking
  • Issues

• Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Progress

• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• 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
  • Learned
  • Writer
  • Studied