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I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

James Frey

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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
Blogger
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Cleveland
Ohio
James Christopher Frey
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But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
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Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
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To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
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You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.
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I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.
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I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.
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Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
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Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.
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To live with angels and chase their dreams.
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Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.
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You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
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My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.
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Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.
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Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.
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I love the process of being alone in a room.
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When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.
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Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
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I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.
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