but my dad said it was no excuse. "But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much. "No, you don't. " "I hate you!" "No, you don't. " My dad can be very calm sometimes. "He's my whole world. " "Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me. " That was my mom.
I've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives.
I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L. A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do that, that would really mean something, that I have arrived. " So I went through the program and said to myself, "I'm going to stay here until they kick me out. " Seriously, they can ask you to leave at any point. Luckily, they never did that to me.
I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before.
As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry. ” “And you're still not sorry,” I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.
Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.
Someone sent me a picture of my name that was tattooed on their a***! The first thing I said was, the least you could have done was spell it properly!
My sister married a German. He complained he couldn't get a good bagel back home. I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?'
The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties. . . the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.
Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep. " "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus. " Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll-I'll Terminus you, buddy!
[Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us, that he was so disappointed in his straight friends because of AIDS and everything. He wrote the letter around March. And in it he wrote, "I usually go to the Trillins for Christmas, but I just couldn't do it this year. "
Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. So all of a sudden emotion becomes more important than reason. Ignorance becomes more important than justice. Injustice is looked over as simply something that happens on television. The spectacle of violence takes over everything.
How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'?
My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when I was going to first grade. She said, "You're Bahamian and African-American on one side, and Russian-Jewish on the other. You're no more one than the other, and it's beautiful that you have all this. It makes your life all the more rich. But society will see you only as black. "
A man walked into the doctor's, The doctor said 'I haven't seen you in a long time' The man replied, 'I know I've been ill'.
I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now. ' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!
Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything. " And she was right because all they ever became was writers.
Father said conflict develops the character
When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.