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It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

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Christopher Bollen
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bedroom
Public
Political

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I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.
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I definitely don't take any of intrusions in my private life personally. You learn how to have a sense of humor pretty quickly. I honestly don't keep up on it unless it's something that would hurt someone else. I can take care of myself, that's not the problem. But it's just not fair to bring anyone else into the picture.
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The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.
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Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.
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You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.
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I like to be alone, I mean, I really love to be alone more than anything else, and I don't really like to talk about myself to death, and I don't like to share too much, and I don't really have dreams of extreme fame or even extreme respect.
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If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.
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Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.
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I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.
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There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.
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Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of Losing My Religion. That's a landmark piece.
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I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need
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I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.
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My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.
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It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different life, it opens doors. All my friends here do such different creative things. It's so awesome.
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I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.
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The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.
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I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.
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I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume because a democracy is built by people just like themselves that there must be secret plots and cover-ups and wizards behind the scenes running the machine.
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When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.
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