Quotes About Resistance

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.

In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000.'

Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like 'Cloud'... It's just almost impossible.

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.

I want to punch everything and fight the world.

Whenever the Klitschkos pick opponents who punch back, things go pear-shaped for them.

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those who accommodated themselves to German occupation, with its ferocious punishments for those who expressed even the mildest opposition.

Punk to me is about fighting for something your passionate about.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

Everyone knows queers and women invented punk.

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?

Why do you all push us around?

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Not everyone is comfortable with being pushed.

Many times somebody tried to help me be constructive and I just pushed them away.