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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

Bret Easton Ellis

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn’t a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don’t know. I think it’s a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
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Female Males Medium Reason Thinking
I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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Men Misogynistic Thinking
I don’t really need to pretend, because it’s who I am, an emotional vampire. I’ve just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people’s real emotions. Search for this night’s prey. Who will it be?
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Emotional Except Motion People Real Vampire
I think the ’80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don’t necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me – or I let happen to me – were about that decade.
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Choices Looks Thinking
One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.”‘ I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. ‘What does the other part of him think?’ Hamlin asks tentatively. ‘What her head would look like on a stick…’
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Ask Mice One Part Right Swallow Treat
Hip,” I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell’s—my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
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Night Running Thinking
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
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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Accustomed Anything Habit People
But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
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Confronting Karma Past Want
Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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Black Looks Sky
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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Darkness Wind Woods
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
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Car People Phrases
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
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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Do Evil People Something
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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Control Directors Money
I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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Answers Enough Smart

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