"I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune."

-- Anne Beatts

#New York Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“Reality is when you pay the rent. Get caught in traffic or your car breaks down. Really it's an AM/FM sort of thing. You've got reality and then there's the miraculous and the transcendent. And once you start, time stops.”
“Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.”

Source : "Blue Christmas". Book by Mary Kay Andrews, 2006.
“We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.”
“The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.”
“I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.”
“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.”

Source : "The Ultimate Writer's Guide to Hollywood" by Skip Press, (p. 199), 2004.
“Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.”
“I love music/sounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark sounds for sure but I also love delicate sounds, they both connect I think. Discharge back in 1980 was a big explosion in sound for me to hear the anger and the energy, still an influence on me. Miles Davis has been an influence, as much as John Coltrane, Brian Eno, John Hassel. So much around me has influenced me: my everyday life, everything around me, the family, etc.... It has an impact.”

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