Henry Rollins Quotes
I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thing. It's called a value system, and because of that, we get more and more small- to medium-sized companies to support us in China.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
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One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are employed full time. Others are marketers or business consultants.
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Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
