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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.
Bret Easton Ellis
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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
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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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... 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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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)
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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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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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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 do not feel I have a legacy to protect.
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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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And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
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I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
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Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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