"It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers. They wrote everything from novels to non-fiction to children's books to journalism - any kind of writing - and I realized that there was no one in the room who would ever read anything I'd written."

-- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

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“I'll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I'm wired badly, I'd say. I'm just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.”
“Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.”
“We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences such as physics and chemistry, where a prize shared among three with divergent views would be an embarrassing mistake or a bad joke. While a Nobel Prize might well be the culmination of a lifeâ€™s work, shouldnâ€™t the work accurately describe the real world?”
“My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.”
“Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.”

Source : Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”
“I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.”
“The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.”
“There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.”

Source : Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”

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