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The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

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WHAT'S WRONG WITH ASSHOLES, BABY? YOU'VE GOT AN ASSHOLE, I'VE GOT AN ASSHOLE! YOU GO TO THE STORE AND BUY A PORTERHOUSE STEAK, THAT HAS AN ASSHOLE! ASSHOLES COVER THE EARTH! IN A WAY TREES HAVE ASSHOLES BUT YOU CAN'T FIND THEM, THEY JUST DROP THEIR LEAVES. YOUR ASSHOLE, MY ASSHOLE, THE WORLD IS FULL OF BILLIONS OF ASSHOLES. THE PRESIDENT HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE CARWASH BOY HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE JUDGE AND THE MURDERER HAVE ASSHOLES...EVEN PURPLE STICKPIN HAS AN ASSHOLE! Charles Bukowski
Haruki Murakami quote: "Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and..."
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods. Haruki Murakami
Orison Swett Marden quote: "No man fails who does his best."
No man fails who does his best. Orison Swett Marden
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them. Malcolm Gladwell
Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive. Donald Rumsfeld
I was quite happy in my new place, and if there was one thing that I missed, it must not be thought I was discontented; all who had to do with me were good, and I had a light airy stable and the best of food. What more could I want? Why, liberty! Anna Sewell
Merrie Spaeth quote: "Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself."
Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself. Merrie Spaeth
In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive. Haruki Murakami
David Foster Wallace quote: "The severing of an established connection is exponentially..."
The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection. David Foster Wallace
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God. John Bunyan
Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers! Pierre Laval
Gordon B. Hinckley quote: "Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions."
Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Gordon B. Hinckley
Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.' Dick Wolf
We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate. Emeril Lagasse