"I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success"

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“Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.”

Source : "Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 343), 1963.
“What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that big movies are going to come out and then you see them up in Malibu in the little triplex theatre a week later and you think, this is show business. This is the great movie career. And it's all funded in the shoe box.”
“I was born in a Negro town.”
“As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there, the species around you absorb your presence into it, and you become part of this animate entity called the city.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.”

Source : Chelsea Cain (2008). “Heartsick”, p.124, Pan Macmillan
“Another crazy day where you drink the night away and forget about everything.”
“When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.”
“The thing about our cast - and I'm not saying this just to be diplomatic - is that everyone is really fun, and really hardworking, in equal measure. Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] and Tony [Hale, who plays President Meyer's "bag man," Gary Walsh] are always doing outrageous "bits" in character right before we start scenes, which are hilarious.”

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