"The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus."

-- Rebecca West

#Fighting Quotes #Octopus Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.”
“Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?”
“Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil”
“People would be in hysterics if they saw that. It's like, wow, he's a superhuman moron.... So he wears lipstick, has a little bouffant, and does little circus acts as well. Oh, he's so sexy.”
“I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don't think that everybody is disciplined. I think that's a rare commodity.”
“As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.”
“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
“The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.”

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