Once you familiarize yourself with your tools, you should forget about them. It will only throw you off-balance. In all these ‘rolling shit into little balls’ types who spend hours of time and reams of paper saying nothing, literary masturbators,...
Bottom line? As much as you wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they...
Say there’s this thing you want, this thing that seems more important than everything, this thing you’ve been for because it will make you into something else. And then you get a chance at it and it’s almost as if you don’t want to change. Be...
You could say that life just happens and it's the way it goes, you either accept it or you fight it... Or You can be one of the few that rises above this perception and fights in all their glory to create the life they want, regardless of the struggl...
Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the dra...
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it a...
If you want to go up in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity.
If you want to hear the truth about yourself -- offend your neighbor.
If you want some lies to be believed wrap them up in truths.
If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
Pray, pray very much; but beware of telling God what you want.
If you don't want to be hung yourself, blame the dog for stealing the sausage.
Offer the lazy man an egg, and he'll want you to peel it for him.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.
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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
In twenty years you could say and do a lot you wish you hadn't. In twenty years you could store up a lot of regrets. And then, when it was too late, when there was no one left to say "I'm sorry" to, "I didn't mean it" to, you could stop sleeping for ...
I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.
I want to be part of your story. I want your story to rearrange the symbols in my mind. I want your voice to be my voice.
I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.
I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.
