"It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time."

-- Anthony Kiedis

#Selfish Quotes #Attention Quotes #Retarded Quotes

“I was about 20 when my mom got sick with cancer and it was bad. It was very scary and at the time I was doing my first screenplay and I was on deadline and was alone with my father in Massachusetts. I said, "Pop, you know, I don't how I'm going to work. I don't know how I can get this done. You know, I got to hand this script in and I can't think about anything but Mom." He said, "Well, you know, now is the time when you're going to learn what it means to compartmentalize." And those words really had an impact on me.”
“Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.”
“The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.”

Source : "The Movie Callie Khouri Has 'Seen A Million Times'". "All Things Considered" with Celeste Headlee, news.stlpublicradio.org. October 14, 2012.
“[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.”

Source : Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The burning point”
“The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, were free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.”
“Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.”
“Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs.”

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