"Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings."

-- Susan Cheever

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“Of every four words I write, I strike out three.”
“If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.”
“I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.”
“Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.”
“Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.”
“That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.”

Source : "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.
“Many strange-looking people obviously dress according to deep convictions that are not shared by on-lookers - they clearly do not know how they actually look, but are satisfied with what their clothes make them feel and believe about their looks. These people may be the true originals, even though they are certainly not the best appreciated. The famous messages of dress, the well-known language of clothes, is very often not doing any communicating at all; a good deal of it is a form of private muttering.”

Source : Anne Hollander (2016). “Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress”, p.141, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.”

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