"But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now."

-- Rick Moody

#Party Quotes #Paris Quotes #Important Quotes

“Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As the criminology argument faded, gun control advocates began arguing guns were a public health problem.”
“People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2008). “The Body of Christopher Creed”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.”
“I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more powerful idea of what is, or could be photographic.”
“Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.”
“As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.”
“I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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