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It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem.


Sheena Easton

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'I don't know,' he said. 'just driving.'
'But this road does...
BRET EASTON ELLIS What's the difference between a J.A.P and spaghetti? Spaghetti moves when you eat it.
BRET EASTON ELLIS You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it.
BRET EASTON ELLIS and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Will you call me before Christmas?' she asks.
Maybe.' I pull on my vest, wondering why I even c...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her.
BRET EASTON ELLIS What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest.
'What do you do?'
'What do you do?' she a...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I...
BRET EASTON ELLIS there was a song i heard when i was in los angeles by a local group. the song was called "los angele...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
BRET EASTON ELLIS And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down,...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Where are we going?" I asked
"I don't know," he said. "Just driving."
"But this road doesn...
BRET EASTON ELLIS People are afraid to merge.
BRET EASTON ELLIS And later when we got into the car, he took a turn down a street that I was pretty sure was a dead e...
BRET EASTON ELLIS The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were s...
BRET EASTON ELLIS She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm s...
BRET EASTON ELLIS But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him.
Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.' BRET EASTON ELLIS I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to wo...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Clay, did you ever love me?"
I'm studying a billboard and say that I didn't hear what she said....
BRET EASTON ELLIS Disappear here
BRET EASTON ELLIS But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him.
“That doesn't matter.”
“What does?...
BRET EASTON ELLIS The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?"
[...]
"'When I see a pretty girl walking down ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
BRET EASTON ELLIS Things
changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more
moves, a hard person who ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
BRET EASTON ELLIS I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married."
Because trying to fuck you is l...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, f...
BRET EASTON ELLIS How is your father?” she asks disinterestedly.
“A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot devi...
BRET EASTON ELLIS What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS