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“I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.”

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Steve Martin is a renowned American comedian, screenwriter, director, and musician, born on August 14, 1945. He has achieved great success in film, television, and theater, known for his unique sense of humor and acting skills. more

“I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race.”

Years Running Felt Race Morning Lows Mark Clean Uncomfortable Prize Grants Suspicion Slow Down Dropping Nineteen Slowing

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

“[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.”

Hard Fruit Spots Brown Pessimist

Book:The Submission: A Novel

Source: The Submission: A Novel

“For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.”

May Littles Self Seems Doubt Acres Self-doubt Misgivings

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks.”

Feels Mark Lays Departure Knowledgeable Question Mark

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.”

Knows Way Want

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.”

Mind Used Laughter Awful

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron. [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to being asked why he writes strong female characters.]”

“I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.”

Thinking Writing Said Play Moments Eye Cat Fundamentals Tired Metaphysical Fever Sleepy

Author:Fernando Pessoa

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