"My dad told me that no one could……" — Poppy Z. Brite
"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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46 Quotes by Poppy Z. Brite
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They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings…
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I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.
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In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and…
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Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic…
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Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight.…
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And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that…
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Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.
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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places…
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New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.
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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to…
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Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.
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Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
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More Chance Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
— Jane Austen
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
— Paul Auster
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance…
— Oksana Baiul
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites…
— Ansel Adams
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be…
— Ernie Banks
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