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" To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. "

Quentin Tarantino

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" I got into Facebook late, and I think if you get into Facebook late, you tend to use it the right way, as opposed to the people who got into it sooner and friended everybody and now have a thousand friends. I keep it at about 80 or so, and they're all people I know. Just because I do a movie doesn't mean I friend everybody in it. "

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" I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning. "

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