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I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Podcaster
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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LA
California
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... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
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History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.
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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
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At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
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No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
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I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
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I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.
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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
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What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
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Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.
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If you start looking at movies on a moral level - I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says I don't like science-fiction movies, or I don't want to sit through a Western, or I don't like violence in movies, then I completely tune out.
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I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.
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I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.
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