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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
Bret Easton Ellis
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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
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Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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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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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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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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Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.
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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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Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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