Dennis Etchison Quotes
American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
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I've noticed that a lot of people in film always seem interested in music videos, like it's some, like, really exciting thing they've always wanted to do or something.
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It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
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Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
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Talking to Petrus is like punching a bag of sand. 'Are you giving him up?' 'Yes, I am giving him up.'
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.
