Besides, men aren’t worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we’d be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you’re the only person you can trust.
Life, Love, Relationships
You'll never really be great unless you aim high.
Dreams, Success
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
Success
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Intelligence
Half my life is an act of revision.
Humour
You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she guessed the licker was spoiling his marksmanship.
Life is the courier of the universal brilliance." Elysse
Love, Inspirational, Poetry
She often felt like she had been cast in a supportingrole with the film that was Louise. And there was more melodrama to be found there than a full-scale Merchant-Ivory period production. Tonight, she was certain, would be no exception.
Friendship, Humour
For 1,300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.
Silence, War, Politics
Because I want to have sex with him-and because that's sinful-I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.
Love, Sex, Obsession
Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.
Self Deception, Society, Fantasy
The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand.
Fantasy
Life is a bowl of cherries just make sure you spit out the pits
Fantasy, Fiction
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
Reality, Fiction
I am glad you are happy-but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.
Life, Reality, Happiness
We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.
Dreams, Reality, Soul
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.
Loss, Grief, Mourning
War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.
War
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
Art, Morality
The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art.
Art, Freedom, Struggle