"Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one"

-- Edward Gorey

“The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.”
“There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.”

Source : "How to Fly a Horse — The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery". Book by Kevin Ashton, www.businessinsider.com. January 20, 2015.
“It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Let him but indistinctly see a thing, or even be undecided as to whether he does actually see it and he will then and there set himself to theorizing, and build immense castles of conjecture on a foundation, of whose existence he is by no means certain.”
“The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.”
“No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.
“I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.”
“Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.”
“had two smaller scripts that I had written with full black casts. And people loved the scripts, but nobody would fund them. Those roles and stories are out there. But unless you have the money to finance movies on your own, you're beholden to others, and that is a very big limiting factor.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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