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I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.
Bret Easton Ellis
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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
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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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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
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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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Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
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The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my sunglasses, something unspoken passes between me and the bird - there's this weird kind of tension, a bizarre pressure, that fuels the following, which starts, happens, ends, very quickly.
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything, and she says calmly... glaring at me,If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.
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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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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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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 have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
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...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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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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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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The better you look, the more you see.
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