"I love Mickey Rourke. I think he's an all-American classic. He's great."

-- Bridget Everett

#Thinking Quotes #Classic Quotes #Mickey Quotes

“The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.”
“Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?”
“I guess the most interesting thing that people think is I'm English. They think that I live in England and have a British accent. When they talk to me, at first they go, "Man, you have a great American accent," and I go, "No, no, no, this is my accent. I don't do accents." And then they're really disappointed, and they try to punch me.”
“Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.”
“I worked because I could control it.”
“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”
“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”
“When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.”

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