"I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up."

-- Anthony Jeselnik

“So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?”

Source : Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.56, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.”
“You're dumber than you think I think you are.”

Source : Robert Towne (1997). “Chinatown ; The Last Detail: Screenplays”, p.119, Grove Press
“Dream big so even if you don't hit the top you will make it somewhere decent.”
“I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.”

Source : "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.
“So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.”

Source : Pliny (the Younger.), Betty Radice (1969). “Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny”, Heinemann ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
“I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.”
“I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.”

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