Top 100 Quotes About Bret
#1. I passed what I thought was a Halloween parade, which was disorienting since I was fairly sure this was May. When I stopped on the corner of Sixteenth Street and made a closer inspection it turned out to be something called a "Gay Pride Parade," which made my stomach turn.
Bret Easton Ellis
#2. My mind reeling with the concept that a human being, a man, could feel pride over sodomizing another man,
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#3. Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
Bret Easton Ellis
#4. Sometimes when you play music, you start thinking, "This is rocking!"
Bret McKenzie
#5. A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Bret Harte
#6. Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
Bret Easton Ellis
#7. I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
Bret Easton Ellis
#8. 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.
Bret Easton Ellis
#10. For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.
Bret Michaels
#11. Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers.
Sebastian Bach
#12. I felt on my back gentle pats like fragile wings just touching me, touching me: my grandchildren's hands.
Bret Lott
#14. In taking care with language, we take care of ourselves.
Bret Stephens
#15. I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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#16. When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.
Owen Hart
#17. The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be
Bret Hart
#18. I say, staring at her, quite clearly but muffled by "Pump Up the Volume" and the crowd, "You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood," but I'm smiling. I
Bret Easton Ellis
#19. 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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#20. Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
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#21. But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
Bret Easton Ellis
#23. She's simply another girl who has gotten by on her looks - her currency in this world - and it will not be fun to watch her grow old.
Bret Easton Ellis
#24. You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.
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#25. 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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#26. You're looking good today Bret. Very hot ... hotter than Jemaine. You have a refined bone structure, while Jemaine's facial features are too deep set to be classically handsome.
Kristen Schaal
#27. I guess the consolation is that she's not going to be beautiful forever," he says. "But I'd like to be with her before that happens.
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#28. By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.
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#29. I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.
Jay McInerney
#31. I'm also staring at the fortune cookie. Its got a lot of blood on it and I shrug and say, as jovially as I can, Oh, you know me.
Bret Easton Ellis
#32. I feel like after Money in the Bank in Phoenix, I almost took a nose dive, career-wise. I couldn't get the reigns on it, but I feel like I finally got the reigns on my career again, and that happens in entertainment.
Bret Hart
#34. There are a lot of good shows that don't get picked up. Like that Ben Stiller pilot, Heat Vision And Jack? That would have been a great show, but somehow it slipped by.
Bret McKenzie
#35. There was, I think, a prevailing
impression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune was
the result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger.
Bret Harte
#36. Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
Bret Harte
#37. You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you
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#38. Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.
Bret Harte
#39. I definitely miss New Zealand. Mainly friends and family.
Bret McKenzie
#41. I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.
Bret Easton Ellis
#43. Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married.
Because trying to fuck you is like trying to french-kiss a very ... small and ... lively gerbil? With braces?
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#45. In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.
Bret Stephens
#46. I would imagine that Bret would taste like a warm goat cheese, and Jemaine would taste like harvati with dill. Hmm ... I'm hungry actually.
Kristen Schaal
#47. Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
Bret Easton Ellis
#49. Is that your real name?
Does it really matter?
It makes me wonder what else is not real.
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#50. My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."
Tao Lin
#51. Descansado," he tells me.
"What does that mean?"
"Descansado," Rip says. "It means 'take it easy,'" he whispers, clutching the child next to him.
"Yeah?"
"It means relax.
Bret Easton Ellis
#52. Before I leave, the Eurotrash girl tells me she likes my gazelleskin wallet. I tell her I would like to tit-fuck her and then maybe cut her arms off, but the music, George Michael singing "Faith," is too loud and she can't hear me. Back upstairs I find Patricia where I left her,
Bret Easton Ellis
#53. But ... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly.
"The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.
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#54. I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before.
Tao Lin
#55. For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.
Bret Harte
#56. I can't disagree. I laugh weakly, walking him to the door. As he leaves I'm wondering and not wondering what happens in the world of Tim Price, which is really the world of most of us: big ideas, guy stuff, boy meets the world, boy gets it.
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#58. I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.
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#59. The dominant expression of a child is gravity.
Bret Harte
#60. You should never mistake affection for ... passion," I warn her. "It can be ... not good. It can ... get you into, well, trouble.
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#61. I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.
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#63. I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.
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#64. She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass.
Do you own a briefcase? I ask her, swallowing.
Bret Easton Ellis
#66. Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about [Donald] Trump.
Bret Stephens
#67. The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.
Bret Anthony Johnston
#68. Learning to write ... is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
Bret Lott
#69. I'm not a racist like Bret Hart, I hate everyone equally!
Jerry Lawler
#70. There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
Owen Hart
#71. It was always the A booth. It was always the front seat of the roller coaster. It was never Let's not get the bottle of Cristal.
Bret Easton Ellis
#73. And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
Bret Easton Ellis
#74. 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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#75. I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
Rachel Kushner
#76. The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
Bret Harte
#77. History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.
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#78. The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.
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#80. And the sun, a planet on fire, gradually rises over Manhattan, another sunrise, and soon the night turns into day so fast its like some kind of optical illusion ...
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#81. No I'm not," I whisper to myself. "I'm a fucking evil psychopath.
Bret Easton Ellis
#82. 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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#83. And it doesnt really matter if intelligence exists because it is really about the look, the idea of a girl like this, the promise of sex. It's all about the lure.
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#84. If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
Bret Easton Ellis
#86. Haven't we outgrown all this tired irony? Weren't we supposed to give up acting twenty-two forever?
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#88. He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.
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#89. You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood, but I'm smiling.
Bret Easton Ellis
#90. The only cheese I have in the apartment is a wedge of Brie in the refrigerator and before leaving I place the entire slice--it's a really big rat--along with a sun-dried tomato and a sprinkling of dill, delicately on the trap, setting it.
Bret Easton Ellis
#91. From those of us who are left behind: you will be remembered, you were the one I needed, I loved you in my dreams.
Bret Easton Ellis
#92. Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star?
Bret Bielema
#93. And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.
Bret Easton Ellis
#94. Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.'
Peter York
#95. My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.
Bret McKenzie
#96. I am a ghost to this man, I'm thinking. I am something unreal, something not quite tangible, yet still an obstacle of sorts and he nods, gets back on the phone, resumes speaking in a dialect totally alien to me.
Bret Easton Ellis
#97. I'm resourceful," Price is saying. "I'm creative, I'm young, unscrupulous, highly motivate, highly skilled. In essence what I'm saying is that society cannot afford to lose me. I'm an asset
Bret Easton Ellis
#99. Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.
Ric Flair
#100. Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it's more forceful than that.
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