Bret Easton Ellis quote: "Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters."

I have to return some videotapes
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I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’...
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I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at ...
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Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction — his range is so wide. T...
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Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
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And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around....
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And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. ...
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I locked myself in a room for a month,
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I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived ...
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I hadn't published a book in six years so I didn't know what to expect. It has been going very well....
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you simply didn't have to pay as much attention to things. The precise pose was no longer required.
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I'm a believer that a book should exist on its own,
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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
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I didn't want to write another long experimental novel.
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Fun is what reading a book should be. I had fun writing it. I wanted a reader to be gripped but it s...
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everything that I find horrible about society.
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[Stepping out from the shadow of Psycho , and such other iconic works as Less Than Zero and The Rule...
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Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchco...
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Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of...
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People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come ba...
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Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foa...
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The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard...
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I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.
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As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce, and you rarely t...
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Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
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It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
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She said that you--"
"I don't care what she said." I stand up. "Everyone lies."
"Hey," h...
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How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met...
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I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
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Disappear Here.
The syringe fills with blood.
You're a beautiful boy and that's all that m...
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A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humble...
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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
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I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the ...
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I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces hims...
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It should have been written already,
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We were all such Didion junkies in college that might still be the highlight of my career.
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After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's
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The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy...
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If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...
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But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visi...
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Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, a...
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Akthent on thee latht thyllable.
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I’m drinking a glass of water in the empty hotel bar at the Principe di Savoia and staring at the ...
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.
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I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization...
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...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an...
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I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I sudd...
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I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
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But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian ...
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I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to lea...
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What you need is a chick from Camden,' Van Patten says, after recovering from McDermott's statement....
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what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you...
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I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing...
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There are some guys sitting at tables who all look at this one gorgeous girl, longingly, hoping for ...
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There was a song I heard when I was in Los Angeles by a local group. The song was called ‘Los Ange...
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Disappear here.
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And as the elevator descends, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even farther down...
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I want to go back," Daniel says, quietly, with effort.
"Where?" I ask, unsure.
There's a l...
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where are we going?' I asked.
'I don't know,' he said. 'just driving.'
'But this road does...
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What's the difference between a J.A.P and spaghetti? Spaghetti moves when you eat it.
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You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it.
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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...
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Will you call me before Christmas?' she asks.
Maybe.' I pull on my vest, wondering why I even c...
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Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her.
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What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest.
'What do you do?'
'What do you do?' she a...
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I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I...
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there was a song i heard when i was in los angeles by a local group. the song was called "los angele...
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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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...
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People are afraid to merge.
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And later when we got into the car, he took a turn down a street that I was pretty sure was a dead e...
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The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were s...
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She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm s...
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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...
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Clay, did you ever love me?"
I'm studying a billboard and say that I didn't hear what she said....
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Disappear here
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But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him.
“That doesn't matter.”
“What does?...
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The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed...
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Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?"
[...]
"'When I see a pretty girl walking down ...
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I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
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Things
changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more
moves, a hard person who ...
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I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend ...
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Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married."
Because trying to fuck you is l...
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Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, f...
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How is your father?” she asks disinterestedly.
“A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot devi...
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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce, and you rarely t...
BRET ELLIS

I totally relate to Tom Cruise, ... He?s not crazy, it?s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
BRET ELLIS

I grew up in suburbia,
BRET ELLIS

The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy...
BRET ELLIS

Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â...
BRET ELLIS

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
BRET ELLIS

It should have been written already,
BRET ELLIS

I locked myself in a room for a month,
BRET ELLIS

Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS

After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's
BRET ELLIS

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work...
SHEENA EASTON

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my s...
SHEENA EASTON

I'd love to a duet with Luther Vandross.
SHEENA EASTON

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people wh...
SHEENA EASTON

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

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and countr...
SHEENA EASTON

When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.
SHEENA EASTON

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.
SHEENA EASTON

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.
SHEENA EASTON

If I have no children what would be the point of living.
SHEENA EASTON

I'm just passionately in love with my kids.
SHEENA EASTON

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.
SHEENA EASTON

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.
SHEENA EASTON

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.
SHEENA EASTON

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my...
SHEENA EASTON

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.
SHEENA EASTON

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep ...
SHEENA EASTON

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's take...
SHEENA EASTON

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.
SHEENA EASTON

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.
SHEENA EASTON

When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s ...
SHEENA EASTON

When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.
SHEENA EASTON

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.
SHEENA EASTON

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and th...
SHEENA EASTON

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the...
SHEENA EASTON

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.
NINA EASTON

I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes,...
MICHAEL EASTON

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous....
MICHAEL EASTON

The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomp...
NINA EASTON

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny...
SHEENA EASTON

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career...
NINA EASTON

Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interview...
NINA EASTON

Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the an...
NINA EASTON

Shamu the killer whale is Sea World's Mickey Mouse; whales named Shamu are the star attractions ...
NINA EASTON

When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I co...
NINA EASTON

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-yea...
NINA EASTON

Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the...
NINA EASTON

Obviously, we are very pleased with (Clinton's visit).
BOB EASTON

We have, over the years, found that the family members prefer to have a private remembrance on the a...
BOB EASTON

It will be a relief and a joy to go ahead and get started with things. We are not out of the woods y...
BOB EASTON

It's time. It's way past time, quite frankly.
BOB EASTON

My storm spotters actively track storms both Saturday and Sunday nights as they crossed Henry County...
BOB EASTON

Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to mul...
NINA EASTON

Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is t...
NINA EASTON

The centerpiece of Obamanomics - raising taxes on high earners and investors and lowering them on th...
NINA EASTON

'George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hung...
NINA EASTON

We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever ...
NINA EASTON

One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Souther...
NINA EASTON

If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's w...
NINA EASTON

Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, ...
NINA EASTON

Yeah, well there have been a bunch. We have had 12,000 through March. But last year we had 20,000.
NILE EASTON

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.
NINA EASTON

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while...
NINA EASTON

No matter what you do with your life during the day, there's always that moment when you have to wak...
ELI EASTON

The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic...
NINA EASTON

The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come hom...
MICHAEL EASTON

Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure th...
NINA EASTON

Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama.
NINA EASTON

Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has sk...
NINA EASTON

I’m not a serpent, Father. I’m a crow.
ELI EASTON

The guardians of your company's cyber security should be encouraged to network within the indust...
NINA EASTON

A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least s...
NINA EASTON

I had a hard time dealing with what I wanted to do with my life.
MICHAEL EASTON

Scenes of strawberries, across crisp farmland.
MICHAEL EASTON

We know he has the ability to play a major role in defining the debate, and the senators from the ci...
BILLY EASTON

He needs to greatly increase the school funding. The priority for those parents is for the schools t...
BILLY EASTON

Those four districts hold the key on whether more money would come to New York City. They are the on...
BILLY EASTON

One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you'...
DOSSIE EASTON

The noontide light passing through the rib cage of Joshua trees, like morning for Matisse.
MICHAEL EASTON

We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and...
NINA EASTON

Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Wome...
NINA EASTON

Some people habitually respond to a lover’s pain and confusion with an intense desire to fix somet...
DOSSIE EASTON

A friend of ours, when she trips over some surprisingly intense emotional response, says, philosophi...
DOSSIE EASTON

GREAT SLUTS are made, not born.
DOSSIE EASTON

Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy.
(...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.
DOSSIE EASTON

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of...
NINA EASTON

The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of h...
NINA EASTON

I just don't see ABC letting go of soaps completely.
MICHAEL EASTON

If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's muc...
NINA EASTON

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.
SHEENA EASTON

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers loo...
NINA EASTON

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: ...
NINA EASTON

As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from “victim” to that of “a...
DON EASTON

As if reading his mind, Lily huffed. “You’re as predictable as the spring rains, son of mine, an...
ELI EASTON

Con la
práctica, podemos desarrollar una
intimidad basada en la cordialidad y
respet...
DOSSIE EASTON

Cuando empezamos a cuestionar todas
las maneras en que nos han dicho que
debíamos ser, po...
DOSSIE EASTON

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
BRET HARTE

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
BRET HARTE

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
BRET HARTE

Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.
BRET HARTE

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
BRET MICHAELS

They jumped up and made shots right away on us and then we couldn't stop the bleeding.
BRET CAMPBELL

We certainly would like to think our size could make a difference. We do have some size for the OVC ...
BRET CAMPBELL

I think they are unselfish. ... I think Duncan and Reed are the glue that holds them together.
BRET CAMPBELL

We're usually about as good as No. 3 (Kelly) and No. 1 (Newson) are on most nights.
BRET CAMPBELL

We feel a lot better about ourselves. First, Jared Newsom and Jeremy Kelly have stepped back up to t...
BRET CAMPBELL

(Kelly) was productive early but has not been as productive late. He has a severe bruised thumb and ...
BRET CAMPBELL

It's a good time to freshen her up.
BRET CALHOUN

I had heard about this place in the past, and you knew it was like that. But, yeah, it has amazed me...
BRET CALHOUN

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

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Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

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