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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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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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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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 want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
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I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.
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Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
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That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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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.
