Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?
I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.
I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
It's the cynics who never get married.
When someone has too much of a thought-out idea, that can be a big obstacle to get anywhere. Because it's like [if] you have a preconceived idea of what's going to happen in the studio in an hour's time, then you're not free anymore and you lock yourself into your own expectations. I don't think that's very creative. It doesn't work well with me.
I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.
A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.