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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.

Bret Easton Ellis

It’s like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.
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Character Dad Female Mom Smart
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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Father Sports Successful
I’ve never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I’ve never touched upon my life. I’ve never written a single scene that I can say took place.
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Novel Scene Touched
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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Crazy Cruise Madness
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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Cab Cities Installed
Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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Deals People Rock Roll
My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
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Mask Sanity Slippage Vacation
So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It’s not the seals I hate——it’s the audience’s enjoyment of them that bothers me.
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Animal Audience Enjoyment Watch Zookeeper
And,” Price adds, smiling, “if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d’ on fire. So you know, warn him.
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Feet Fire Twenties
How could she ever understand that there isn’t any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
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Disappointed Forward Looking Way
…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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Happen Happens Noihing
With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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Generations Interesting Stylist
I learned that you really don’t have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. 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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Director Issues Writing
Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?’ […] ‘”When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things.
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Down Girl Real Street Sweet Think
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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Hollywood Levels Stories
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.
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Men Moving Odds

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