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Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
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She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
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If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.
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The better you look, the more you see.
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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
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I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.
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I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.
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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
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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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Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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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 think basically most men are misogynistic.
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So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He...ate a balanced diet.
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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
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I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.
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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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