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"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
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"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."
"You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!"
"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need."
"He sniggered.He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now."
"Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!"
"May as well have ox blood running through those veins, I added, 'You're as stubborn as one."
"For I never care to do a thing in a quiet way, it's got to be theatrical or I don't take any interest in it."
"A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal."
"I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'"
"As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore."
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"I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out."
"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable."
"It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be."
"The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures."
"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."
"So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions."
"It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more."
"My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert."
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