"Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable. These are, to me, a part of the ordinary human condition. So I don't think I'm writing about abnormal things. ... Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception."

-- John le Carre

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“You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.”
“Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.”
“The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.”
“Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.”

Source : Rita Dove (2016). “Collected Poems: 1974-2004”, p.165, W. W. Norton & Company
“In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help. . . . No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.”

Source : "The Ecology of Human Development".
“If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.”

Source : "Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant Interview WRITING MOVIES FOR (FUN AND) PROFIT: HOW WE MADE A BILLION DOLLARS AT THE BOX OFFICE AND YOU CAN, TOO!". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 4, 2011.
“Do I look like a Jonas Brother? Then why is everyone waiting for me to lose it?”
“As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.”

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