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Poppy Z. Brite

"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."

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"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."

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"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers."

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"Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!"

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"Index investing outperforms active management year after year."

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"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."

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"I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer."
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"Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food."
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"I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror."
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"My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove."
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"There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!"
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"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."
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"In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!"
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"I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years."
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